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A good leader does not get bogged down in the minutia of a tactical problem at the expense of strategic success.

Jocko Willink

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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Greatness Leadership Understand
People do not follow robots.
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People Technology
Relax. Look around. Make a call.
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Action Breathe Inspirational See
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
Such concepts are simple, but not easy,
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Easy Simplicity
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
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
The test for a successful brief is simple: Do the team and the supporting elements understand it?
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Success Team Understand
The only meaningful measure for a leader is whether the team succeeds or fails.
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Failure Success Team
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
Calm but not robotic, logical but not devoid of emotions.
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Emotional Logic Technology
Motivation is fickle. It comes and goes.
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Motivational One Liner
Trust is not blindly given. It must be built over time.
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Time Trust
A mission statement tells your troops what you are doing.
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Team Yourself
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
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

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