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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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And the more you build your will by doing hard things, the stronger your will becomes.
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Strong Willing Yourself
Motivation is fickle. It comes and goes.
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Motivational One Liner
Whether on the battlefield or in the business world, leaders must be comfortable accepting some level of risk.
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Business Comfortable Leadership Risk Understand War World
The infamous they.
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Famous One Liner
If the plan is simple enough, everyone understands it, which means each person can rapidly adjust and modify what he or she is doing. If the plan is too complex, the team can’t make rapid adjustments to it, because there is no baseline understanding of it.
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Planning Simplicity Team Understand
Good leaders are rare; bad leaders are common.
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Bad Goodness Leadership
Don’t let your mind control you. Control your mind.
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Control Inspirational Mindset Yourself
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
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
As a leader, it is up to you to explain the bigger picture to him—and to all your front line leaders. That is a critical component of leadership
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Explanation Leadership Photograpgh
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
Get after it.
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Inspirational One Liner
Don’t ask your leader what you should do, tell them what you are going to do.
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Future Leadership Yourself
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
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
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

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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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