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Departments and groups within the team must break down silos, depend on each other and understand who depends on them.

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Extreme Ownership. Leaders must own everything in their world. There is no one else to blame.
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Blame Leadership World
Cover and Move, Simple, Prioritize and Execute, and Decentralized Command.
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Act Simplicity
Don’t ask your leader what you should do, tell them what you are going to do.
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Future Leadership Yourself
His realistic assessment, acknowledgment of failure, and ownership of the problem were key to developing a plan to improve performance and ultimately win.
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Development Failure Himself Improvement Problem Win
Good leaders are rare; bad leaders are common.
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Bad Goodness Leadership
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
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
Good leaders don’t make excuses.
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Goodness Leadership One Liner
The goal of leadership seems simple: to get people to do what they need to do to support the mission and the team.
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Friendship Goal Simplicity Support Team
I had to take ownership of everything that went wrong. Despite the tremendous blow to my reputation and to my ego, it was the right thing to do—the only thing to do. I
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Myself Reputation Responsibility Right Time
A leader must care about the troops, but at the same time the leader must complete the mission, and in doing so there will be risk and sometimes unavoidable consequences to the troops.
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Care Leadership Risk Time
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
Take care of your gear and your gear will take care of you.
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Care Material
There is no growth in the comfort zone.
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Comfortable Growth One Liner
Remember: the enemy gets a vote.
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Democracy Enemy Remember
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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