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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

leadership is the single greatest factor in any team’s performance.
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Leadership Team
Don’t expect to be motivated every day to get out there and make things happen. You won’t be. Don’t count on motivation. Count on Discipline.
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Discipline Expectation Motivational
Discipline equals freedom.
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Discipline Equality Freedom One Liner
Take care of your gear and your gear will take care of you.
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Care Material
Instead of letting the situation dictate our decisions, we must dictate the situation.
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Control Decision Ourselves
But, in fact, discipline is the pathway to freedom.
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Discipline Freedom
There is only hard work, late nights, early mornings, practice, rehearsal, repetition, study, sweat, blood, toil, frustration, and discipline.
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Discipline Inspirational Morning Night Practice Success
The only meaningful measure for a leader is whether the team succeeds or fails.
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Failure Success Team
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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Age Change Improvement Leadership Simplicity Technology
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
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
Leadership requires finding the equilibrium in the dichotomy of many seemingly contradictory qualities, between one extreme and another.
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Leadership Quality
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
For this reason, they must believe in the cause for which they are fighting.
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Believe Fight Inspirational Reason
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
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

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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