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The test for a successful brief is simple: Do the team and the supporting elements understand it?

Jocko Willink

Don’t let your mind control you. Control your mind.
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Control Inspirational Mindset Yourself
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
Don’t try to plan for every contingency. Doing so will only overburden you and weigh you down so that you cannot quickly maneuver.
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Quick Try Willing Yourself
The best leaders are not driven by ego or personal agendas.
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Leadership Virtue
Leadership is simple, but not easy.
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Easy Leadership Simplicity
Don’t fight stress. Embrace it. Turn it on itself. Use it to make yourself sharper and more alert. Use it to make you think and learn and get better and smarter and more effective. Use the stress to make you a better you.
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Fight Learning Thinking
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
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
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
People do not follow robots.
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People Technology
Good leaders don’t make excuses.
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Goodness Leadership One Liner
To not move around, observe, and analyze, in order to make the best decisions possible, was to fail as a leader and fail the team.
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Best Decision Failure Leadership Possible Team
Motivation is fickle. It comes and goes.
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Motivational One Liner
Get after it.
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Inspirational One Liner
Decisively engaged?
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Decision Marriage
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

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