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

Jocko Willink

Staying ahead of the curve prevents a leader from being overwhelmed when pressure is applied and enables greater decisiveness.
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Decision Force Greatness Leadership Stay
Don’t try to plan for every contingency. Doing so will only overburden you and weigh you down so that you cannot quickly maneuver.
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Quick Try Willing Yourself
In the business world, and in life, there are inherent complexities. It is critical to keep plans and communication simple.
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Business Life Simplicity World
The leader must own everything in his or her world.
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Himself Leadership World
There is no growth in the comfort zone.
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Comfortable Growth One Liner
Remember: the enemy gets a vote.
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Democracy Enemy Remember
Don’t ask your leader what you should do, tell them what you are going to do.
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Future Leadership Yourself
After all, there can be no leadership where there is no team.
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Leadership Team
As a leader, it is up to you to explain the bigger picture to him—and to all your front line leaders. That is a critical component of leadership
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Explanation Leadership Photograpgh
Calm but not robotic, logical but not devoid of emotions.
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Emotional Logic Technology
And the more you build your will by doing hard things, the stronger your will becomes.
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Strong Willing Yourself
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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Goodness Importance Leadership Team
The test for a successful brief is simple: Do the team and the supporting elements understand it?
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Success Team Understand
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
A good leader has nothing to prove, but everything to prove.
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Deep Goodness Leadership
Waiting for the 100 percent right and certain solution leads to delay, indecision, and an inability to execute.
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Ability Action Decision Right Wait

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