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

Jocko Willink

In the SEAL Teams, the bond of our brotherhood is our strongest weapon. If you take that away from us, we lose our most important quality as a team.
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Important Lose Quality Relationship Strong Team Weapon
Leadership is simple, but not easy.
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Easy Leadership Simplicity
Don’t ask your leader what you should do, tell them what you are going to do.
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Future Leadership Yourself
The test for a successful brief is simple: Do the team and the supporting elements understand it?
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Success Team Understand
Such concepts are simple, but not easy,
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Easy Simplicity
Take care of your gear and your gear will take care of you.
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Care Material
Don’t let your mind control you. Control your mind.
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Control Inspirational Mindset Yourself
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
People do not follow robots.
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People Technology
A leader must care about the troops, but at the same time the leader must complete the mission, and in doing so there will be risk and sometimes unavoidable consequences to the troops.
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Care Leadership Risk Time
After all, there can be no leadership where there is no team.
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Leadership Team
When it comes to standards, as a leader, it’s not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate. When setting expectations, no matter what has been said or written, if substandard performance is accepted and no one is held accountable.
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Acceptance Expectation Leadership Tolerance
Remember to keep your ego in check. Don’t judge people.
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Judgement People Remember Yourself
All elements within the greater team are crucial and must work together to accomplish the mission, mutually supporting one another for that singular purpose.
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Accomplishment Greatness Support Team Togetherness
Instead of letting the situation dictate our decisions, we must dictate the situation.
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Control Decision Ourselves
But, in fact, discipline is the pathway to freedom.
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Discipline Freedom

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