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Leadership is simple, but not easy.

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In the business world, and in life, there are inherent complexities. It is critical to keep plans and communication simple.
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Business Life Simplicity World
Decisively engaged?
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Decision Marriage
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
To not move around, observe, and analyze, in order to make the best decisions possible, was to fail as a leader and fail the team.
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Best Decision Failure Leadership Possible Team
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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Greatness Leadership Team
After all, there can be no leadership where there is no team.
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Leadership Team
Calm but not robotic, logical but not devoid of emotions.
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Emotional Logic Technology
A good leader has nothing to prove, but everything to prove.
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Deep Goodness Leadership
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
The Warrior Kid treats people with respect, doesn’t judge them.
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Judgement People Respect Warrior
Such concepts are simple, but not easy,
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Easy 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
Repetitive exceptional performance became a habit.
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Performance
Good leaders don’t make excuses.
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Goodness Leadership One Liner
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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Development Leadership Mistake Wrong

Leadership is simple, but not easy.

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