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

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The focus must always be on how to best accomplish the mission.
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Accomplishment Best Focus
Our egos don’t like to take blame.
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Blame Ourselves
People do not follow robots.
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People Technology
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
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
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
leadership is the single greatest factor in any team’s performance.
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Leadership Team
Leadership isn’t one person leading a team. It is a group of leaders working together, up and down the chain of command, to lead.
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Leadership Person Team Togetherness
Leadership is simple, but not easy.
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Easy Leadership Simplicity
Our freedom to operate and maneuver had increased substantially through disciplined procedures. Discipline equals freedom.
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Discipline Equality Freedom Ourselves
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
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
Instead of letting the situation dictate our decisions, we must dictate the situation.
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Control Decision Ourselves
Plans and orders must be communicated in a manner that is simple, clear, and concise. Everyone
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Planning Simplicity
After all, there can be no leadership where there is no team.
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Leadership Team

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