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Discipline equals freedom.

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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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Friendship Goal Simplicity Support Team
It’s not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate.
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Deep Tolerance Yourself
Is this what I want to be? This? Is this all I’ve got—is this everything I can give? Is this going to be my life? Do I accept that?
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Acceptance Generosity Life Myself Philosophy
The leader must own everything in his or her world.
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Himself Leadership World
Cover and Move, Simple, Prioritize and Execute, and Decentralized Command.
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Act Simplicity
Our egos don’t like to take blame.
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Blame Ourselves
leadership is the single greatest factor in any team’s performance.
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Leadership 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
Take care of your gear and your gear will take care of you.
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Care Material
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
Relax. Look around. Make a call.
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Action Breathe Inspirational See
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
You have to BE VIGILANT. You have to be ON GUARD. You have to HOLD THE LINE on the seemingly insignificant little things— things that shouldn’t matter—but that do.
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Importance Worth Yourself
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
His realistic assessment, acknowledgment of failure, and ownership of the problem were key to developing a plan to improve performance and ultimately win.
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Development Failure Himself Improvement Problem Win
Good leaders are rare; bad leaders are common.
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Bad Goodness Leadership

Discipline equals freedom.

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