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Repetitive exceptional performance became a habit.

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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
A mission statement tells your troops what you are doing.
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Team Yourself
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
A good leader has nothing to prove, but everything to prove.
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Deep Goodness Leadership
For leaders, the humility to admit and own mistakes and develop a plan to overcome them is essential to success. The best leaders are not driven by ego or personal agendas. They are simply focused on the mission and how best to accomplish it.
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Accomplishment Development Focus Humility Leadership Mistake Simplicity
leadership is the single greatest factor in any team’s performance.
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Leadership 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
For this reason, they must believe in the cause for which they are fighting.
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Believe Fight Inspirational Reason
Motivation is fickle. It comes and goes.
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Motivational One Liner
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
It’s not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate.
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Deep Tolerance Yourself
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
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
Decisively engaged?
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Decision Marriage
Don’t try to plan for every contingency. Doing so will only overburden you and weigh you down so that you cannot quickly maneuver.
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Quick Try Willing Yourself

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