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There is no growth in the comfort zone.

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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
A mission statement tells your troops what you are doing.
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Team Yourself
leadership is the single greatest factor in any team’s performance.
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Leadership Team
I had to take ownership of everything that went wrong. Despite the tremendous blow to my reputation and to my ego, it was the right thing to do—the only thing to do. I
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Myself Reputation Responsibility Right Time
Most important of all, he believed winning was possible.
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Believe Himself Important Possible Win
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
If we could execute with a monumental effort just to reach an immediate goal that everyone could see, we could then continue to the next visually.
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Effort Goal See
Instead of letting the situation dictate our decisions, we must dictate the situation.
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Control Decision Ourselves
Take care of your gear and your gear will take care of you.
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Care Material
Relax. Look around. Make a call.
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Action Breathe Inspirational See
The only meaningful measure for a leader is whether the team succeeds or fails.
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Failure Success Team
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
The best leaders are not driven by ego or personal agendas.
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Leadership Virtue
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
Good leaders don’t make excuses.
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Goodness Leadership 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

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