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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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Remember: the enemy gets a vote.
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Democracy Enemy Remember
There is only hard work, late nights, early mornings, practice, rehearsal, repetition, study, sweat, blood, toil, frustration, and discipline.
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Discipline Inspirational Morning Night Practice Success
Establishing an effective and repeatable planning process is critical to the success of any team.
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Establishment Planning Success Team
You have to BE VIGILANT. You have to be ON GUARD. You have to HOLD THE LINE on the seemingly insignificant little things— things that shouldn’t matter—but that do.
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Importance Worth Yourself
Remember to keep your ego in check. Don’t judge people.
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Judgement People Remember Yourself
Cover and Move, Simple, Prioritize and Execute, and Decentralized Command.
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Act Simplicity
If the plan is simple enough, everyone understands it, which means each person can rapidly adjust and modify what he or she is doing. If the plan is too complex, the team can’t make rapid adjustments to it, because there is no baseline understanding of it.
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Planning Simplicity Team Understand
Instead of letting the situation dictate our decisions, we must dictate the situation.
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Control Decision Ourselves
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
Decisively engaged?
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Decision Marriage
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
The infamous they.
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Famous One Liner
Even the most competent of leaders can be overwhelmed if they try to tackle multiple problems or a number of tasks simultaneously.
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Leadership Problem Try
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
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

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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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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