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Once people stop making excuses, stop blaming others, and take ownership of everything in their lives, they are compelled to take action to solve their problems.

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The test for a successful brief is simple: Do the team and the supporting elements understand it?
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Success Team Understand
A good leader has nothing to prove, but everything to prove.
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Deep Goodness Leadership
People do not follow robots.
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People Technology
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
A mission statement tells your troops what you are doing.
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Team Yourself
Such concepts are simple, but not easy,
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Easy Simplicity
Calm but not robotic, logical but not devoid of emotions.
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Emotional Logic Technology
Good leaders are rare; bad leaders are common.
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Bad Goodness Leadership
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
The only meaningful measure for a leader is whether the team succeeds or fails.
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Failure Success Team
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
Repetitive exceptional performance became a habit.
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Performance
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
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
Whether on the battlefield or in the business world, leaders must be comfortable accepting some level of risk.
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Business Comfortable Leadership Risk Understand War World
Leadership requires finding the equilibrium in the dichotomy of many seemingly contradictory qualities, between one extreme and another.
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Leadership Quality

Once people stop making excuses, stop blaming others, and take ownership of everything in their lives, they are compelled to take action to solve their problems.

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Once people stop making excuses, stop blaming others, and take ownership of everything in their lives, they are compelled to take action to solve their problems.

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