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In order to convince and inspire others to follow and accomplish a mission, a leader must be a true believer in the mission.

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The focus must always be on how to best accomplish the mission.
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Accomplishment Best Focus
Decisively engaged?
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Decision Marriage
The leader must own everything in his or her world.
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Himself Leadership World
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
Take care of your gear and your gear will take care of you.
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Care Material
All elements within the greater team are crucial and must work together to accomplish the mission, mutually supporting one another for that singular purpose.
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Accomplishment Greatness Support Team Togetherness
leadership is the single greatest factor in any team’s performance.
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Leadership Team
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
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
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
Most important of all, he believed winning was possible.
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Believe Himself Important Possible Win
After all, there can be no leadership where there is no team.
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Leadership Team
A good leader does not get bogged down in the minutia of a tactical problem at the expense of strategic success.
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Goodness Leadership Problem Success
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
For leaders, the humility to admit and own mistakes and develop a plan to overcome them is essential to success. The best leaders are not driven by ego or personal agendas. They are simply focused on the mission and how best to accomplish it.
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Accomplishment Development Focus Humility Leadership Mistake Simplicity
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

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