In order to convince and inspire others to follow and accomplish a mission, a leader must be a true believer in the mission.
JOCKO WILLINKThe focus must always be on how to best accomplish the mission.
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Cover and Move, Simple, Prioritize and Execute, and Decentralized Command.
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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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leadership is the single greatest factor in any team’s performance.
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If mistakes happen, effective leaders don’t place blame on others. They take ownership of the mistakes, determine what went wrong, develop solutions to correct those mistakes and prevent them from happening again as they move forward.
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Leaders must accept total responsibility, own problems that inhibit performance, and develop solutions to those problems.
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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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Leadership isn’t one person leading a team. It is a group of leaders working together, up and down the chain of command, to lead.
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Motivation is fickle. It comes and goes.
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Get after it.
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Instead of letting the situation dictate our decisions, we must dictate the situation.
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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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For this reason, they must believe in the cause for which they are fighting.
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As a leader, you have to balance the dichotomy, to be resolute where it matters but never inflexible and uncompromising on matters of little importance to the overall good of the team and the strategic mission.
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And the more you build your will by doing hard things, the stronger your will becomes.
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But, in fact, discipline is the pathway to freedom.
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There is only hard work, late nights, early mornings, practice, rehearsal, repetition, study, sweat, blood, toil, frustration, and discipline.
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Extreme Ownership. Leaders must own everything in their world. There is no one else to blame.
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Decisively engaged?
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Good leaders are rare; bad leaders are common.
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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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Remember to keep your ego in check. Don’t judge people.
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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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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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More than a decade of continuous war and tough combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan gave birth to a new generation of leaders in the ranks of America’s fighting forces.
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Even the most competent of leaders can be overwhelmed if they try to tackle multiple problems or a number of tasks simultaneously.
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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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