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It’s not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate.

Jocko Willink

The most impressive thing about this improvement in performance was that it did not come from a major process change or an advance in technology. Instead, it came through a leadership principle that has been around for ages: Simple.
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Age Change Improvement Leadership Simplicity Technology
Generally, when a leader struggles, the root cause behind the problem is that the leader has leaned too far in one direction and steered off course. Awareness.
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Direction Leader Problem Struggle
It’s not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate.
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Deep Tolerance Yourself
Decisively engaged?
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Decision Marriage
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
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
And the more you build your will by doing hard things, the stronger your will becomes.
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Strong Willing Yourself
Get after it.
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Inspirational One Liner
Leadership requires finding the equilibrium in the dichotomy of many seemingly contradictory qualities, between one extreme and another.
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Leadership Quality
Instead of letting the situation dictate our decisions, we must dictate the situation.
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Control Decision Ourselves
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
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
A good leader has nothing to prove, but everything to prove.
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Deep Goodness Leadership
Leadership is simple, but not easy.
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Easy Leadership Simplicity
That’s it. When things are going bad: Don’t get all bummed out, don’t get startled, don’t get frustrated. No. Just look at the issue and say: Good.
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Bad Goodness Issue
Extreme Ownership. Leaders must own everything in their world. There is no one else to blame.
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Blame Leadership World
Establishing an effective and repeatable planning process is critical to the success of any team.
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Establishment Planning Success Team
Repetitive exceptional performance became a habit.
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Performance
Faster. Stronger. Smarter. More humble. Less ego.
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Humble Instagram Captions Strong
Remember: the enemy gets a vote.
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Democracy Enemy Remember
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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Blame Development Failure Leadership Mistake Oneself Win
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 U.S. Navy SEAL Teams were at the forefront of this leadership transformation, emerging from the triumphs and tragedies of war with a crystallized understanding of what it takes to succeed in the most challenging environments that combat presents.
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Challenge Leadership Present Success Team Tragedy Transformation Understand War Win
Stop researching every aspect of it and reading all about it and debating the pros and cons of it, Start doing it.
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Reading Start
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
Our egos don’t like to take blame.
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Blame Ourselves
Remember to keep your ego in check. Don’t judge people.
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Judgement People Remember Yourself

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