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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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We wrote this so that the leadership lessons can continue to impact teams beyond the battlefield in all leadership situations—any company, team, or organization in which a group of people strives to achieve a goal and accomplish a mission.
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Accomplishment Company Leadership Lesson People Team
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
Remember to keep your ego in check. Don’t judge people.
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Judgement People Remember Yourself
Leaders must always operate with the understanding that they are part of something greater than themselves and their own personal interests.
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Greatness Leadership Understand
Establishing an effective and repeatable planning process is critical to the success of any team.
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Establishment Planning Success Team
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
Most important of all, he believed winning was possible.
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Believe Himself Important Possible Win
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
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
That’s it. When things are going bad: Don’t get all bummed out, don’t get startled, don’t get frustrated. No. Just look at the issue and say: Good.
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Bad Goodness Issue
If mistakes happen, effective leaders don’t place blame on others. They take ownership of the mistakes, determine what went wrong, develop solutions to correct those mistakes and prevent them from happening again as they move forward.
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Development Leadership Mistake Wrong
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
To not move around, observe, and analyze, in order to make the best decisions possible, was to fail as a leader and fail the team.
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Best Decision Failure Leadership Possible Team
Relax. Look around. Make a call.
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Action Breathe Inspirational See
Decisively engaged?
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Decision Marriage

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