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Don’t ask your leader what you should do, tell them what you are going to do.

Jocko Willink

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
After all, there can be no leadership where there is no team.
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Leadership Team
Whether on the battlefield or in the business world, leaders must be comfortable accepting some level of risk.
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Business Comfortable Leadership Risk Understand War 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
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
Repetitive exceptional performance became a habit.
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Performance
Relax. Look around. Make a call.
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Action Breathe Inspirational See
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
Cover and Move, Simple, Prioritize and Execute, and Decentralized Command.
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Act Simplicity
Good leaders don’t make excuses.
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Goodness Leadership One Liner
Don’t let your mind control you. Control your mind.
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Control Inspirational Mindset Yourself
Leadership is simple, but not easy.
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Easy Leadership Simplicity
Remember to keep your ego in check. Don’t judge people.
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Judgement People Remember Yourself
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
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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Achievement Belief Leadership Learning Perseverance Possible Victory
Take care of your gear and your gear will take care of you.
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