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Waiting for the 100 percent right and certain solution leads to delay, indecision, and an inability to execute.

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The only meaningful measure for a leader is whether the team succeeds or fails.
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Failure Success Team
Take care of your gear and your gear will take care of you.
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Care Material
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
When it comes to standards, as a leader, it’s not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate. When setting expectations, no matter what has been said or written, if substandard performance is accepted and no one is held accountable.
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Acceptance Expectation Leadership Tolerance
Leadership requires finding the equilibrium in the dichotomy of many seemingly contradictory qualities, between one extreme and another.
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Leadership Quality
The U.S. Navy SEAL Teams were at the forefront of this leadership transformation, emerging from the triumphs and tragedies of war with a crystallized understanding of what it takes to succeed in the most challenging environments that combat presents.
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Challenge Leadership Present Success Team Tragedy Transformation Understand War Win
Discipline equals freedom.
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Discipline Equality Freedom 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
Repetitive exceptional performance became a habit.
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Performance
Don’t let your mind control you. Control your mind.
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Control Inspirational Mindset Yourself
A mission statement tells your troops what you are doing.
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Team Yourself
Calm but not robotic, logical but not devoid of emotions.
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Emotional Logic Technology
The infamous they.
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Famous One Liner
In the business world, and in life, there are inherent complexities. It is critical to keep plans and communication simple.
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Business Life Simplicity World
The test for a successful brief is simple: Do the team and the supporting elements understand it?
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Success Team Understand
The best leaders are not driven by ego or personal agendas.
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Leadership Virtue

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