Good leaders don’t make excuses.
JOCKO WILLINKIf 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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Our freedom to operate and maneuver had increased substantially through disciplined procedures. Discipline equals freedom.
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A mission statement tells your troops what you are doing.
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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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Remember to keep your ego in check. Don’t judge people.
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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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Good leaders are rare; bad leaders are common.
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We learned that leadership requires belief in the mission and unyielding perseverance to achieve victory, particularly when doubters question whether victory is even possible.
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Faster. Stronger. Smarter. More humble. Less ego.
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Take care of your gear and your gear will take care of you.
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Repetitive exceptional performance became a habit.
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The leader must own everything in his or her world.
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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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I had to take ownership of everything that went wrong. Despite the tremendous blow to my reputation and to my ego, it was the right thing to do—the only thing to do. I
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Our egos don’t like to take blame.
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Leaders must always operate with the understanding that they are part of something greater than themselves and their own personal interests.
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