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The focus must always be on how to best accomplish the mission.

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Don’t ask your leader what you should do, tell them what you are going to do.
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Future Leadership Yourself
The leader must own everything in his or her world.
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Himself Leadership World
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
The test for a successful brief is simple: Do the team and the supporting elements understand it?
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Success Team Understand
Instead of letting the situation dictate our decisions, we must dictate the situation.
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Control Decision Ourselves
Good leaders don’t make excuses.
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Goodness Leadership One Liner
Extreme Ownership. Leaders must own everything in their world. There is no one else to blame.
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Blame Leadership World
Once people stop making excuses, stop blaming others, and take ownership of everything in their lives, they are compelled to take action to solve their problems.
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Action Blame Live People Problem
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
Cover and Move, Simple, Prioritize and Execute, and Decentralized Command.
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Act Simplicity
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
Get after it.
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Inspirational One Liner
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
When it comes to standards, as a leader, it’s not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate.
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Leadership Philosophy Tolerance
Plans and orders must be communicated in a manner that is simple, clear, and concise. Everyone
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Planning Simplicity
But we can’t ever think we are too good to fail or that our enemies are not capable, deadly, and eager to exploit our weaknesses. We must never get complacent. This is where controlling the ego is most important.
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Control Enemy Failure Goodness Important Thinking

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