analytic philosophy

elitist

leadership

optimism

success

nationality

American

race / ethnicity

African American

occupation / innovator as

politician

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

National Security Advisor

United States Secretary of State

scientific organization

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

diplomat

Soldier

religion

Episcopal Church

American Philosophical Society

Vietnam War

Jamaican American

is a philosophical approach emphasizing clarity, rigor, argument, theory, truth not generally life, more like science than religion, more like mathematics than poetry.

Colin McGinn in The Making of a Philosopher: My Journey through Twentieth-Century Philosophy (2002), defines analytic philosophy as a 'tradition [that] emphasizes clarity, rigor, argument, theory, truth. It is not a tradition that aims primarily for inspiration or consolation or ideology. Nor is it particularly concerned with 'philosophy of life,' though parts of it are. This kind of philosophy is more like science than religion, more like mathematics than poetry -though it is neither science nor mathematics.

is an inbred intellectual hemophiliac who bleeds to death as soon as he is nicked by the real world.

is about solving problems. As such, the day people stop bringing their problems to a deader is the day they stopped leading.

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. Colin Powell

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. Colin Powell

is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty and persistence.

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