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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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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
Instead of letting the situation dictate our decisions, we must dictate the situation.
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Control Decision Ourselves
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
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 mission statement tells your troops what you are doing.
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Team Yourself
Most important of all, he believed winning was possible.
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Believe Himself Important Possible Win
When it comes to standards, as a leader, it’s not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate.
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Leadership Philosophy Tolerance
But, in fact, discipline is the pathway to freedom.
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Discipline Freedom
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
I had to take ownership of everything that went wrong. Despite the tremendous blow to my reputation and to my ego, it was the right thing to do—the only thing to do. I
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Myself Reputation Responsibility Right Time
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
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
In order to convince and inspire others to follow and accomplish a mission, a leader must be a true believer in the mission.
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Accomplishment Believe Inspirational Leadership True
A good leader has nothing to prove, but everything to prove.
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Deep Goodness Leadership
A leader must lead but also be ready to follow. Sometimes, another member of the team—perhaps a subordinate or direct report—might be in a better position to develop a plan, make a decision, or lead through a specific situation.
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Decision Development Leadership Team
His realistic assessment, acknowledgment of failure, and ownership of the problem were key to developing a plan to improve performance and ultimately win.
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Development Failure Himself Improvement Problem Win

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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