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Leaders must always operate with the understanding that they are part of something greater than themselves and their own personal interests.

Jocko Willink

You have to BE VIGILANT. You have to be ON GUARD. You have to HOLD THE LINE on the seemingly insignificant little things— things that shouldn’t matter—but that do.
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Importance Worth Yourself
Leadership is simple, but not easy.
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Easy Leadership Simplicity
If the plan is simple enough, everyone understands it, which means each person can rapidly adjust and modify what he or she is doing. If the plan is too complex, the team can’t make rapid adjustments to it, because there is no baseline understanding of it.
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Planning Simplicity Team Understand
Take care of your gear and your gear will take care of you.
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Care Material
All elements within the greater team are crucial and must work together to accomplish the mission, mutually supporting one another for that singular purpose.
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Accomplishment Greatness Support Team Togetherness
Repetitive exceptional performance became a habit.
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Performance
The only meaningful measure for a leader is whether the team succeeds or fails.
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Failure Success Team
The test for a successful brief is simple: Do the team and the supporting elements understand it?
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Success Team Understand
Good leaders are rare; bad leaders are common.
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Bad Goodness Leadership
The leader must own everything in his or her world.
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Himself Leadership World
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
The Warrior Kid treats people with respect, doesn’t judge them.
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Judgement People Respect Warrior
Don’t ask your leader what you should do, tell them what you are going to do.
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Future Leadership Yourself
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
After all, there can be no leadership where there is no team.
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Leadership Team
Extreme Ownership. Leaders must own everything in their world. There is no one else to blame.
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Blame Leadership World

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