Waiting for the 100 percent right and certain solution leads to delay, indecision, and an inability to execute.
JOCKO WILLINKAlthough 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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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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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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There is only hard work, late nights, early mornings, practice, rehearsal, repetition, study, sweat, blood, toil, frustration, and discipline.
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People do not follow robots.
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Leadership is simple, but not easy.
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Whether on the battlefield or in the business world, leaders must be comfortable accepting some level of risk.
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The Warrior Kid treats people with respect, doesn’t judge them.
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A mission statement tells your troops what you are doing.
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The greatest of these was the recognition that leadership is the most important factor on the battlefield, the single greatest reason behind the success of any team.
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Leaders must accept total responsibility, own problems that inhibit performance, and develop solutions to those problems.
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When it comes to standards, as a leader, it’s not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate.
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The focus must always be on how to best accomplish the mission.
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In order to convince and inspire others to follow and accomplish a mission, a leader must be a true believer in the mission.
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Calm but not robotic, logical but not devoid of emotions.
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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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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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Get after it.
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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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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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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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Departments and groups within the team must break down silos, depend on each other and understand who depends on them.
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The leader must own everything in his or her world.
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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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Our egos don’t like to take blame.
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A good leader has nothing to prove, but everything to prove.
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Good leaders are rare; bad leaders are common.
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