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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.

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Decisively engaged?
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Decision Marriage
Remember to keep your ego in check. Don’t judge people.
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Judgement People Remember Yourself
In the SEAL Teams, the bond of our brotherhood is our strongest weapon. If you take that away from us, we lose our most important quality as a team.
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Important Lose Quality Relationship Strong Team Weapon
Even the most competent of leaders can be overwhelmed if they try to tackle multiple problems or a number of tasks simultaneously.
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Leadership Problem Try
The focus must always be on how to best accomplish the mission.
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Accomplishment Best Focus
The only meaningful measure for a leader is whether the team succeeds or fails.
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Failure Success Team
Relax. Look around. Make a call.
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Action Breathe Inspirational See
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
Once people stop making excuses, stop blaming others, and take ownership of everything in their lives, they are compelled to take action to solve their problems.
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Action Blame Live People Problem
The U.S. Navy SEAL Teams were at the forefront of this leadership transformation, emerging from the triumphs and tragedies of war with a crystallized understanding of what it takes to succeed in the most challenging environments that combat presents.
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Challenge Leadership Present Success Team Tragedy Transformation Understand War Win
If mistakes happen, effective leaders don’t place blame on others. They take ownership of the mistakes, determine what went wrong, develop solutions to correct those mistakes and prevent them from happening again as they move forward.
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Development Leadership Mistake Wrong
Instead of letting the situation dictate our decisions, we must dictate the situation.
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Control Decision Ourselves
Extreme Ownership. Leaders must own everything in their world. There is no one else to blame.
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Blame Leadership World
Don’t fight stress. Embrace it. Turn it on itself. Use it to make yourself sharper and more alert. Use it to make you think and learn and get better and smarter and more effective. Use the stress to make you a better you.
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Fight Learning Thinking
To not move around, observe, and analyze, in order to make the best decisions possible, was to fail as a leader and fail the team.
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Best Decision Failure Leadership Possible Team
Cover and Move, Simple, Prioritize and Execute, and Decentralized Command.
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Act Simplicity

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