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Our freedom to operate and maneuver had increased substantially through disciplined procedures. Discipline equals freedom.
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Discipline Equality Freedom Ourselves
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
Such concepts are simple, but not easy,
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Easy Simplicity
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
Faster. Stronger. Smarter. More humble. Less ego.
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Humble Instagram Captions Strong
Our egos don’t like to take blame.
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Blame Ourselves
Get after it.
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Inspirational One Liner
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
Generally, when a leader struggles, the root cause behind the problem is that the leader has leaned too far in one direction and steered off course. Awareness.
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Direction Leader Problem Struggle
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
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
leadership is the single greatest factor in any team’s performance.
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Leadership Team
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
Decisively engaged?
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Decision Marriage
Don’t expect to be motivated every day to get out there and make things happen. You won’t be. Don’t count on motivation. Count on Discipline.
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Discipline Expectation Motivational
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
A good leader does not get bogged down in the minutia of a tactical problem at the expense of strategic success.
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Goodness Leadership Problem Success
Leaders must accept total responsibility, own problems that inhibit performance, and develop solutions to those problems.
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Acceptance Development Leadership Problem Responsibility
Trust is not blindly given. It must be built over time.
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Time Trust
Remember to keep your ego in check. Don’t judge people.
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Judgement People Remember Yourself
Good leaders are rare; bad leaders are common.
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Bad Goodness Leadership
Repetitive exceptional performance became a habit.
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Performance
A good leader has nothing to prove, but everything to prove.
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Deep Goodness Leadership
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
After all, there can be no leadership where there is no team.
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Leadership Team
Plans and orders must be communicated in a manner that is simple, clear, and concise. Everyone
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Planning Simplicity
Leadership isn’t one person leading a team. It is a group of leaders working together, up and down the chain of command, to lead.
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Leadership Person Team Togetherness

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