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Don’t ask your leader what you should do, tell them what you are going to do.

Jocko Willink

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
There is no easy way.
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Easy Hard Time Inspirational
Repetitive exceptional performance became a habit.
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Performance
Don’t expect to be motivated every day to get out there and make things happen. You won’t be. Don’t count on motivation. Count on Discipline.
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Discipline Expectation Motivational
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
Discipline equals freedom.
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Discipline Equality Freedom One Liner
Leadership is simple, but not easy.
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Easy Leadership Simplicity
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
Staying ahead of the curve prevents a leader from being overwhelmed when pressure is applied and enables greater decisiveness.
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Decision Force Greatness Leadership Stay
For leaders, the humility to admit and own mistakes and develop a plan to overcome them is essential to success. The best leaders are not driven by ego or personal agendas. They are simply focused on the mission and how best to accomplish it.
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Accomplishment Development Focus Humility Leadership Mistake Simplicity
Plans and orders must be communicated in a manner that is simple, clear, and concise. Everyone
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Planning Simplicity
Good leaders are rare; bad leaders are common.
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Bad Goodness Leadership
Departments and groups within the team must break down silos, depend on each other and understand who depends on them.
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Break Independent Team Understand
All animals, including humans, need to see the connection between action and consequence in order to learn or react appropriately.
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Action Animal Connection Human Learning
Cover and Move, Simple, Prioritize and Execute, and Decentralized Command.
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Act Simplicity
When it comes to standards, as a leader, it’s not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate.
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Leadership Philosophy Tolerance

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