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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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Repetitive exceptional performance became a habit.
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Performance
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
If the plan is simple enough, everyone understands it, which means each person can rapidly adjust and modify what he or she is doing. If the plan is too complex, the team can’t make rapid adjustments to it, because there is no baseline understanding of it.
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Planning Simplicity Team Understand
It’s not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate.
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Deep Tolerance Yourself
Plans and orders must be communicated in a manner that is simple, clear, and concise. Everyone
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Planning Simplicity
The most fundamental and important truths at the heart of Extreme Ownership: there are no bad teams, only bad leaders.
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Bad Fundamental Heart Important Leadership Team Truth
There is no easy way.
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Easy Hard Time Inspirational
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
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
Calm but not robotic, logical but not devoid of emotions.
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Emotional Logic Technology
The test for a successful brief is simple: Do the team and the supporting elements understand it?
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Success Team Understand
Don’t ask your leader what you should do, tell them what you are going to do.
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Future Leadership Yourself
Don’t let your mind control you. Control your mind.
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Control Inspirational Mindset Yourself
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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Quick Try Willing Yourself
As a leader, it is up to you to explain the bigger picture to him—and to all your front line leaders. That is a critical component of leadership
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Explanation Leadership Photograpgh
Cover and Move, Simple, Prioritize and Execute, and Decentralized Command.
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Act Simplicity

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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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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