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In the SEAL Teams, the bond of our brotherhood is our strongest weapon. If you take that away from us, we lose our most important quality as a team.

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Repetitive exceptional performance became a habit.
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Performance
The focus must always be on how to best accomplish the mission.
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Accomplishment Best Focus
Even the most competent of leaders can be overwhelmed if they try to tackle multiple problems or a number of tasks simultaneously.
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Leadership Problem Try
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
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
Discipline equals freedom.
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Discipline Equality Freedom One Liner
A good leader has nothing to prove, but everything to prove.
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Deep Goodness Leadership
Leadership is simple, but not easy.
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Easy Leadership Simplicity
Trust is not blindly given. It must be built over time.
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Time Trust
The leader must own everything in his or her world.
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Himself Leadership World
It’s not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate.
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Deep Tolerance Yourself
A mission statement tells your troops what you are doing.
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Team Yourself
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
So how can a leader become great if they lack the natural characteristics necessary to lead? The answer is simple: a good leader builds a great team that counterbalances their weaknesses.
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Greatness Leadership Necessary Simplicity Team Weakness
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
Good leaders are rare; bad leaders are common.
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Bad Goodness Leadership

In the SEAL Teams, the bond of our brotherhood is our strongest weapon. If you take that away from us, we lose our most important quality as a team.

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In the SEAL Teams, the bond of our brotherhood is our strongest weapon. If you take that away from us, we lose our most important quality as a team.

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