Good leaders don’t make excuses.
JOCKO WILLINKIf we could execute with a monumental effort just to reach an immediate goal that everyone could see, we could then continue to the next visually.
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The test for a successful brief is simple: Do the team and the supporting elements understand it?
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Leaders must accept total responsibility, own problems that inhibit performance, and develop solutions to those problems.
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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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Even the most competent of leaders can be overwhelmed if they try to tackle multiple problems or a number of tasks simultaneously.
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The infamous they.
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Generally, when a leader struggles, the root cause behind the problem is that the leader has leaned too far in one direction and steered off course. Awareness.
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A good leader has nothing to prove, but everything to prove.
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I can remember many times when my boat crew struggled. It was easy to make excuses for our team’s performance and why it wasn’t what it should have been. But I learned that good leaders don’t make excuses. Instead, they figure out a way to get it done and win.
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Faster. Stronger. Smarter. More humble. Less ego.
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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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Good leaders are rare; bad leaders are common.
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A mission statement tells your troops what you are doing.
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There is only hard work, late nights, early mornings, practice, rehearsal, repetition, study, sweat, blood, toil, frustration, and discipline.
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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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Most important of all, he believed winning was possible.
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