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Establishing an effective and repeatable planning process is critical to the success of any team.
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Establishment Planning Success Team
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
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
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
Discipline equals freedom.
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Discipline Equality Freedom One Liner
There are no bad units, only bad officers. This captures the essence of what Extreme Ownership is all about.
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Bad Control Politics
The test for a successful brief is simple: Do the team and the supporting elements understand it?
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Success Team Understand
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
Extreme Ownership. Leaders must own everything in their world. There is no one else to blame.
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Blame Leadership World
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
Decisively engaged?
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Decision Marriage
The focus must always be on how to best accomplish the mission.
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Accomplishment Best Focus
After all, there can be no leadership where there is no team.
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Leadership Team
In the SEAL Teams, the bond of our brotherhood is our strongest weapon. If you take that away from us, we lose our most important quality as a team.
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Important Lose Quality Relationship Strong Team Weapon
It’s not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate.
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Deep Tolerance Yourself
Don’t ask your leader what you should do, tell them what you are going to do.
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Future Leadership Yourself

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