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Leadership is simple, but not easy.

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Waiting for the 100 percent right and certain solution leads to delay, indecision, and an inability to execute.
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Ability Action Decision Right Wait
Although discipline demands control and asceticism, it actually results in freedom. When you have the discipline to get up early, you are rewarded with more free time.
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Control Discipline Freedom Result Time
The test for a successful brief is simple: Do the team and the supporting elements understand it?
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Success Team Understand
Our egos don’t like to take blame.
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Blame Ourselves
A leader must lead but also be ready to follow. Sometimes, another member of the team—perhaps a subordinate or direct report—might be in a better position to develop a plan, make a decision, or lead through a specific situation.
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Decision Development Leadership Team
If we could execute with a monumental effort just to reach an immediate goal that everyone could see, we could then continue to the next visually.
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Effort Goal See
As a leader, you have to balance the dichotomy, to be resolute where it matters but never inflexible and uncompromising on matters of little importance to the overall good of the team and the strategic mission.
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Goodness Importance Leadership Team
A mission statement tells your troops what you are doing.
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Team Yourself
The only meaningful measure for a leader is whether the team succeeds or fails.
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Failure Success Team
Such concepts are simple, but not easy,
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Easy Simplicity
The goal of leadership seems simple: to get people to do what they need to do to support the mission and the team.
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Friendship Goal Simplicity Support Team
Remember to keep your ego in check. Don’t judge people.
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Judgement People Remember Yourself
Discipline equals freedom.
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Discipline Equality Freedom One Liner
Extreme Ownership. Leaders must own everything in their world. There is no one else to blame.
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Blame Leadership World
Motivation is fickle. It comes and goes.
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Motivational One Liner
Relax. Look around. Make a call.
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Action Breathe Inspirational See

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