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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.

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Discipline equals freedom.
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Discipline Equality Freedom One Liner
When it comes to standards, as a leader, it’s not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate.
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Leadership Philosophy Tolerance
It’s not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate.
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Deep Tolerance Yourself
Staying ahead of the curve prevents a leader from being overwhelmed when pressure is applied and enables greater decisiveness.
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Decision Force Greatness Leadership Stay
Relax. Look around. Make a call.
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Action Breathe Inspirational See
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
The Warrior Kid treats people with respect, doesn’t judge them.
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Judgement People Respect Warrior
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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Direction Leader Problem Struggle
leadership is the single greatest factor in any team’s performance.
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Leadership Team
As a leader, you have to balance the dichotomy, to be resolute where it matters but never inflexible and uncompromising on matters of little importance to the overall good of the team and the strategic mission.
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Goodness Importance Leadership Team
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
A good leader has nothing to prove, but everything to prove.
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Deep Goodness Leadership
Faster. Stronger. Smarter. More humble. Less ego.
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Humble Instagram Captions Strong
Get after it.
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Inspirational One Liner
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
The most fundamental and important truths at the heart of Extreme Ownership: there are no bad teams, only bad leaders.
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Bad Fundamental Heart Important Leadership Team Truth
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
Cover and Move, Simple, Prioritize and Execute, and Decentralized Command.
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Act Simplicity
Remember to keep your ego in check. Don’t judge people.
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Judgement People Remember Yourself
Take care of your gear and your gear will take care of you.
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Care Material
Departments and groups within the team must break down silos, depend on each other and understand who depends on them.
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Break Independent Team Understand
In order to convince and inspire others to follow and accomplish a mission, a leader must be a true believer in the mission.
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Accomplishment Believe Inspirational Leadership True
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
Our egos don’t like to take blame.
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Blame Ourselves
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
The greatest of these was the recognition that leadership is the most important factor on the battlefield, the single greatest reason behind the success of any team.
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Greatness Leadership Team

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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