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Leadership isn’t one person leading a team. It is a group of leaders working together, up and down the chain of command, to lead.

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Trust is not blindly given. It must be built over time.
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Time Trust
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
Such concepts are simple, but not easy,
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Easy Simplicity
There is no growth in the comfort zone.
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Comfortable Growth One Liner
Establishing an effective and repeatable planning process is critical to the success of any team.
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Establishment Planning Success Team
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
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
Remember to keep your ego in check. Don’t judge people.
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Judgement People Remember Yourself
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
Is this what I want to be? This? Is this all I’ve got—is this everything I can give? Is this going to be my life? Do I accept that?
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Acceptance Generosity Life Myself Philosophy
That’s it. When things are going bad: Don’t get all bummed out, don’t get startled, don’t get frustrated. No. Just look at the issue and say: Good.
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Bad Goodness Issue
Repetitive exceptional performance became a habit.
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Performance
The only meaningful measure for a leader is whether the team succeeds or fails.
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Failure Success Team
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
There is no easy way.
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Easy Hard Time Inspirational
Leadership isn’t one person leading a team. It is a group of leaders working together, up and down the chain of command, to lead.
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Leadership Person Team Togetherness

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