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A good leader does not get bogged down in the minutia of a tactical problem at the expense of strategic success.

Jocko Willink

Don’t let your mind control you. Control your mind.
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Control Inspirational Mindset Yourself
His realistic assessment, acknowledgment of failure, and ownership of the problem were key to developing a plan to improve performance and ultimately win.
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Development Failure Himself Improvement Problem Win
Don’t ask your leader what you should do, tell them what you are going to do.
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Future Leadership Yourself
A leader must lead but also be ready to follow. Sometimes, another member of the team—perhaps a subordinate or direct report—might be in a better position to develop a plan, make a decision, or lead through a specific situation.
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Decision Development Leadership Team
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
When it comes to standards, as a leader, it’s not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate. When setting expectations, no matter what has been said or written, if substandard performance is accepted and no one is held accountable.
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Acceptance Expectation Leadership Tolerance
And the more you build your will by doing hard things, the stronger your will becomes.
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Strong Willing Yourself
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
leadership is the single greatest factor in any team’s performance.
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Leadership Team
Extreme Ownership. Leaders must own everything in their world. There is no one else to blame.
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Blame Leadership World
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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Greatness Leadership Understand
All animals, including humans, need to see the connection between action and consequence in order to learn or react appropriately.
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Action Animal Connection Human Learning
There is no growth in the comfort zone.
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Comfortable Growth One Liner
There is no easy way.
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Easy Hard Time Inspirational
Cover and Move, Simple, Prioritize and Execute, and Decentralized Command.
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Act Simplicity
The best leaders are not driven by ego or personal agendas.
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Leadership Virtue

A good leader does not get bogged down in the minutia of a tactical problem at the expense of strategic success.

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