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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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The most fundamental and important truths at the heart of Extreme Ownership: there are no bad teams, only bad leaders.
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Bad Fundamental Heart Important Leadership Team Truth
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
Discipline equals freedom.
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Discipline Equality Freedom One Liner
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
Leadership is simple, but not easy.
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Easy Leadership Simplicity
And the more you build your will by doing hard things, the stronger your will becomes.
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Strong Willing Yourself
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
The most impressive thing about this improvement in performance was that it did not come from a major process change or an advance in technology. Instead, it came through a leadership principle that has been around for ages: Simple.
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Age Change Improvement Leadership Simplicity Technology
Cover and Move, Simple, Prioritize and Execute, and Decentralized Command.
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Act Simplicity
The goal of leadership seems simple: to get people to do what they need to do to support the mission and the team.
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Friendship Goal Simplicity Support Team
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
Establishing an effective and repeatable planning process is critical to the success of any team.
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Establishment Planning Success Team
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
Get after it.
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Inspirational One Liner
Good leaders don’t make excuses.
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Goodness Leadership One Liner
But, in fact, discipline is the pathway to freedom.
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Discipline Freedom

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