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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
Decisively engaged?
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Decision Marriage
Establishing an effective and repeatable planning process is critical to the success of any team.
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Establishment Planning Success Team
So how can a leader become great if they lack the natural characteristics necessary to lead? The answer is simple: a good leader builds a great team that counterbalances their weaknesses.
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Greatness Leadership Necessary Simplicity Team Weakness
Don’t let your mind control you. Control your mind.
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Control Inspirational Mindset Yourself
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 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
The test for a successful brief is simple: Do the team and the supporting elements understand it?
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Success Team Understand
A leader must lead but also be ready to follow. Sometimes, another member of the team—perhaps a subordinate or direct report—might be in a better position to develop a plan, make a decision, or lead through a specific situation.
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Decision Development Leadership Team
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
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
Take care of your gear and your gear will take care of you.
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Care Material
Motivation is fickle. It comes and goes.
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Motivational One Liner
Such concepts are simple, but not easy,
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Easy Simplicity
Leadership requires finding the equilibrium in the dichotomy of many seemingly contradictory qualities, between one extreme and another.
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Leadership Quality

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