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

Jocko Willink

Faster. Stronger. Smarter. More humble. Less ego.
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Don’t ask your leader what you should do, tell them what you are going to do.
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Future Leadership Yourself
In the SEAL Teams, the bond of our brotherhood is our strongest weapon. If you take that away from us, we lose our most important quality as a team.
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Important Lose Quality Relationship Strong Team Weapon
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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Leadership requires finding the equilibrium in the dichotomy of many seemingly contradictory qualities, between one extreme and another.
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Leadership is simple, but not easy.
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Easy Leadership Simplicity
If mistakes happen, effective leaders don’t place blame on others. They take ownership of the mistakes, determine what went wrong, develop solutions to correct those mistakes and prevent them from happening again as they move forward.
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Development Leadership Mistake Wrong
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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People do not follow robots.
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People Technology
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 focus must always be on how to best accomplish the mission.
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Accomplishment Best Focus
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
Take care of your gear and your gear will take care of you.
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Care Material
All elements within the greater team are crucial and must work together to accomplish the mission, mutually supporting one another for that singular purpose.
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Accomplishment Greatness Support Team Togetherness
Whether on the battlefield or in the business world, leaders must be comfortable accepting some level of risk.
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Decisively engaged?
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Decision Marriage

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

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