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We learned that leadership requires belief in the mission and unyielding perseverance to achieve victory, particularly when doubters question whether victory is even possible.

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The leader must own everything in his or her world.
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Himself Leadership World
The focus must always be on how to best accomplish the mission.
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Accomplishment Best Focus
Stop researching every aspect of it and reading all about it and debating the pros and cons of it, Start doing it.
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Reading Start
Establishing an effective and repeatable planning process is critical to the success of any team.
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Establishment Planning Success Team
Whether on the battlefield or in the business world, leaders must be comfortable accepting some level of risk.
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Business Comfortable Leadership Risk Understand War World
There is no growth in the comfort zone.
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Comfortable Growth One Liner
Even the most competent of leaders can be overwhelmed if they try to tackle multiple problems or a number of tasks simultaneously.
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Leadership Problem Try
Our egos don’t like to take blame.
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Blame Ourselves
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
Extreme Ownership. Leaders must own everything in their world. There is no one else to blame.
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Blame Leadership World
leadership is the single greatest factor in any team’s performance.
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Leadership Team
Get after it.
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Inspirational One Liner
A mission statement tells your troops what you are doing.
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Team Yourself
The only meaningful measure for a leader is whether the team succeeds or fails.
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Failure Success Team
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
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
Plans and orders must be communicated in a manner that is simple, clear, and concise. Everyone
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Planning Simplicity
Is this what I want to be? This? Is this all I’ve got—is this everything I can give? Is this going to be my life? Do I accept that?
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Acceptance Generosity Life Myself Philosophy
Decisively engaged?
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Decision Marriage
Remember: the enemy gets a vote.
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Democracy Enemy Remember
More than a decade of continuous war and tough combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan gave birth to a new generation of leaders in the ranks of America’s fighting forces.
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Born Fight Force Leadership Tough War
And the more you build your will by doing hard things, the stronger your will becomes.
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Strong Willing Yourself
Trust is not blindly given. It must be built over time.
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Time Trust
But, in fact, discipline is the pathway to freedom.
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Discipline Freedom
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. 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
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

We learned that leadership requires belief in the mission and unyielding perseverance to achieve victory, particularly when doubters question whether victory is even possible.

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We learned that leadership requires belief in the mission and unyielding perseverance to achieve victory, particularly when doubters question whether victory is even possible.

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