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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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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
Although discipline demands control and asceticism, it actually results in freedom. When you have the discipline to get up early, you are rewarded with more free time.
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Control Discipline Freedom Result Time
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
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
And the more you build your will by doing hard things, the stronger your will becomes.
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Strong Willing Yourself
Leaders must accept total responsibility, own problems that inhibit performance, and develop solutions to those problems.
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Acceptance Development Leadership Problem Responsibility
Waiting for the 100 percent right and certain solution leads to delay, indecision, and an inability to execute.
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Ability Action Decision Right Wait
Generally, when a leader struggles, the root cause behind the problem is that the leader has leaned too far in one direction and steered off course. Awareness.
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Direction Leader Problem Struggle
There is no easy way.
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Easy Hard Time Inspirational
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
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
If we could execute with a monumental effort just to reach an immediate goal that everyone could see, we could then continue to the next visually.
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Effort Goal See
The infamous they.
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Famous One Liner
Instead of letting the situation dictate our decisions, we must dictate the situation.
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Control Decision Ourselves
Motivation is fickle. It comes and goes.
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Motivational One Liner
Leadership requires finding the equilibrium in the dichotomy of many seemingly contradictory qualities, between one extreme and another.
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Leadership Quality

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