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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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There is no easy way.
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Easy Hard Time Inspirational
Waiting for the 100 percent right and certain solution leads to delay, indecision, and an inability to execute.
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Ability Action Decision Right Wait
A leader must care about the troops, but at the same time the leader must complete the mission, and in doing so there will be risk and sometimes unavoidable consequences to the troops.
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Care Leadership Risk Time
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
The focus must always be on how to best accomplish the mission.
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Accomplishment Best Focus
Good leaders are rare; bad leaders are common.
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Bad Goodness Leadership
Plans and orders must be communicated in a manner that is simple, clear, and concise. Everyone
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Planning Simplicity
There is no growth in the comfort zone.
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Comfortable Growth One Liner
Departments and groups within the team must break down silos, depend on each other and understand who depends on them.
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Break Independent Team Understand
A leader must lead but also be ready to follow. Sometimes, another member of the team—perhaps a subordinate or direct report—might be in a better position to develop a plan, make a decision, or lead through a specific situation.
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Decision Development Leadership Team
The best leaders are not driven by ego or personal agendas.
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Leadership Virtue
The test for a successful brief is simple: Do the team and the supporting elements understand it?
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Success Team Understand
Staying ahead of the curve prevents a leader from being overwhelmed when pressure is applied and enables greater decisiveness.
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Decision Force Greatness Leadership Stay
Relax. Look around. Make a call.
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Action Breathe Inspirational See
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
In the SEAL Teams, the bond of our brotherhood is our strongest weapon. If you take that away from us, we lose our most important quality as a team.
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Important Lose Quality Relationship Strong Team Weapon

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