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Repetitive exceptional performance became a habit.

Jocko Willink

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  Staying ahead of the curve prevents a leader from being overwhelmed when pressure is applied and enables greater decisiveness.

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  Don’t fight stress. Embrace it. Turn it on itself. Use it to make yourself sharper and more alert. Use it to make you think and learn and get better and smarter and more effective. Use the stress to make you a better you.

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  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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  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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  A mission statement tells your troops what you are doing.

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