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

Jocko Willink

Such concepts are simple, but not easy,
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Easy Simplicity
leadership is the single greatest factor in any team’s performance.
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Leadership Team
There is no easy way.
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Easy Hard Time Inspirational
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
Don’t let your mind control you. Control your mind.
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Control Inspirational Mindset Yourself
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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Goodness Leadership Problem Success
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
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
For leaders, the humility to admit and own mistakes and develop a plan to overcome them is essential to success. The best leaders are not driven by ego or personal agendas. They are simply focused on the mission and how best to accomplish it.
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Accomplishment Development Focus Humility Leadership Mistake Simplicity
But, in fact, discipline is the pathway to freedom.
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Discipline Freedom
Repetitive exceptional performance became a habit.
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Performance
The infamous they.
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Famous One Liner
The focus must always be on how to best accomplish the mission.
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Accomplishment Best Focus
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
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
There is no one else to blame. The leader must acknowledge mistakes and admit failures, take ownership of them, and develop a plan to win.
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Blame Development Failure Leadership Mistake Oneself Win

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