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Plans and orders must be communicated in a manner that is simple, clear, and concise. Everyone

Jocko Willink

So how can a leader become great if they lack the natural characteristics necessary to lead? The answer is simple: a good leader builds a great team that counterbalances their weaknesses.
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Greatness Leadership Necessary Simplicity Team Weakness
When it comes to standards, as a leader, it’s not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate. When setting expectations, no matter what has been said or written, if substandard performance is accepted and no one is held accountable.
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Acceptance Expectation Leadership Tolerance
Extreme Ownership. Leaders must own everything in their world. There is no one else to blame.
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Blame Leadership World
Most important of all, he believed winning was possible.
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Believe Himself Important Possible Win
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
Stop researching every aspect of it and reading all about it and debating the pros and cons of it, Start doing it.
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Reading Start
His realistic assessment, acknowledgment of failure, and ownership of the problem were key to developing a plan to improve performance and ultimately win.
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Development Failure Himself Improvement Problem Win
We learned that leadership requires belief in the mission and unyielding perseverance to achieve victory, particularly when doubters question whether victory is even possible.
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Achievement Belief Leadership Learning Perseverance Possible Victory
A leader must care about the troops, but at the same time the leader must complete the mission, and in doing so there will be risk and sometimes unavoidable consequences to the troops.
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Care Leadership Risk Time
Cover and Move, Simple, Prioritize and Execute, and Decentralized Command.
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Act Simplicity
The best leaders are not driven by ego or personal agendas.
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Leadership Virtue
For this reason, they must believe in the cause for which they are fighting.
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Believe Fight Inspirational Reason
There is no easy way.
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Easy Hard Time Inspirational
That’s it. When things are going bad: Don’t get all bummed out, don’t get startled, don’t get frustrated. No. Just look at the issue and say: Good.
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Bad Goodness Issue
And the more you build your will by doing hard things, the stronger your will becomes.
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Strong Willing Yourself
Plans and orders must be communicated in a manner that is simple, clear, and concise. Everyone
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Planning Simplicity

Plans and orders must be communicated in a manner that is simple, clear, and concise. Everyone

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