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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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Repetitive exceptional performance became a habit.
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Performance
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
Remember to keep your ego in check. Don’t judge people.
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Judgement People Remember Yourself
The best leaders are not driven by ego or personal agendas.
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Leadership Virtue
Establishing an effective and repeatable planning process is critical to the success of any team.
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Establishment Planning Success Team
The leader must own everything in his or her world.
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Himself Leadership World
Although discipline demands control and asceticism, it actually results in freedom. When you have the discipline to get up early, you are rewarded with more free time.
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Control Discipline Freedom Result Time
I can remember many times when my boat crew struggled. It was easy to make excuses for our team’s performance and why it wasn’t what it should have been. But I learned that good leaders don’t make excuses. Instead, they figure out a way to get it done and win.
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Goodness Leadership Learning Myself Remember Struggle Time Win
All animals, including humans, need to see the connection between action and consequence in order to learn or react appropriately.
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Action Animal Connection Human Learning
A good leader has nothing to prove, but everything to prove.
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Deep Goodness Leadership
More than a decade of continuous war and tough combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan gave birth to a new generation of leaders in the ranks of America’s fighting forces.
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Born Fight Force Leadership Tough War
Leadership is simple, but not easy.
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Easy Leadership 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
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
leadership is the single greatest factor in any team’s performance.
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Leadership Team
Faster. Stronger. Smarter. More humble. Less ego.
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