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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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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
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
Establishing an effective and repeatable planning process is critical to the success of any team.
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Establishment Planning Success Team
Most important of all, he believed winning was possible.
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Believe Himself Important Possible Win
Extreme Ownership. Leaders must own everything in their world. There is no one else to blame.
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Blame Leadership World
The infamous they.
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Famous One Liner
There is no one else to blame. The leader must acknowledge mistakes and admit failures, take ownership of them, and develop a plan to win.
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Blame Development Failure Leadership Mistake Oneself Win
A mission statement tells your troops what you are doing.
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Team Yourself
Don’t let your mind control you. Control your mind.
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Control Inspirational Mindset Yourself
Don’t ask your leader what you should do, tell them what you are going to do.
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Future Leadership Yourself
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
Don’t try to plan for every contingency. Doing so will only overburden you and weigh you down so that you cannot quickly maneuver.
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Quick Try Willing Yourself
Stop researching every aspect of it and reading all about it and debating the pros and cons of it, Start doing it.
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Reading Start
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
The focus must always be on how to best accomplish the mission.
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Accomplishment Best Focus
But, in fact, discipline is the pathway to freedom.
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Discipline Freedom

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