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People do not follow robots.

Jocko Willink

We wrote this so that the leadership lessons can continue to impact teams beyond the battlefield in all leadership situations—any company, team, or organization in which a group of people strives to achieve a goal and accomplish a mission.
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Accomplishment Company Leadership Lesson People Team
Discipline equals freedom.
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Discipline Equality Freedom One Liner
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
There is only hard work, late nights, early mornings, practice, rehearsal, repetition, study, sweat, blood, toil, frustration, and discipline.
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Discipline Inspirational Morning Night Practice Success
Leadership is simple, but not easy.
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Easy Leadership Simplicity
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
There is no easy way.
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Easy Hard Time Inspirational
Motivation is fickle. It comes and goes.
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Motivational One Liner
Repetitive exceptional performance became a habit.
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Performance
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
Good leaders don’t make excuses.
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Goodness Leadership One Liner
Our egos don’t like to take blame.
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Blame Ourselves
Don’t ask your leader what you should do, tell them what you are going to do.
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Future Leadership Yourself
People do not follow robots.
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People Technology
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
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

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