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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 most impressive thing about this improvement in performance was that it did not come from a major process change or an advance in technology. Instead, it came through a leadership principle that has been around for ages: Simple.
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Age Change Improvement Leadership Simplicity Technology
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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Fight Learning Thinking
Most important of all, he believed winning was possible.
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Believe Himself Important Possible Win
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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Accomplishment Company Leadership Lesson People Team
Instead of letting the situation dictate our decisions, we must dictate the situation.
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Control Decision Ourselves
Cover and Move, Simple, Prioritize and Execute, and Decentralized Command.
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Act Simplicity
Don’t let your mind control you. Control your mind.
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Control Inspirational Mindset Yourself
There is no easy way.
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Easy Hard Time Inspirational
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
Our egos don’t like to take blame.
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Blame Ourselves
The best leaders are not driven by ego or personal agendas.
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Leadership Virtue
leadership is the single greatest factor in any team’s performance.
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Leadership Team
Calm but not robotic, logical but not devoid of emotions.
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Emotional Logic Technology
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
All animals, including humans, need to see the connection between action and consequence in order to learn or react appropriately.
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Action Animal Connection Human Learning
For this reason, they must believe in the cause for which they are fighting.
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Believe Fight Inspirational Reason

When it comes to standards, as a leader, it’s not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate.

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