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We wrote this so that the leadership lessons can continue to impact teams beyond the battlefield in all leadership situations—any company, team, or organization in which a group of people strives to achieve a goal and accomplish a mission.

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Once people stop making excuses, stop blaming others, and take ownership of everything in their lives, they are compelled to take action to solve their problems.
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Action Blame Live People Problem
But, in fact, discipline is the pathway to freedom.
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Discipline Freedom
The test for a successful brief is simple: Do the team and the supporting elements understand it?
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Success Team Understand
Our egos don’t like to take blame.
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Blame Ourselves
Good leaders are rare; bad leaders are common.
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Bad Goodness Leadership
People do not follow robots.
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People Technology
There is no easy way.
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Easy Hard Time Inspirational
Instead of letting the situation dictate our decisions, we must dictate the situation.
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Control Decision Ourselves
A good leader has nothing to prove, but everything to prove.
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Deep Goodness Leadership
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
We wrote this so that the leadership lessons can continue to impact teams beyond the battlefield in all leadership situations—any company, team, or organization in which a group of people strives to achieve a goal and accomplish a mission.
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Accomplishment Company Leadership Lesson People Team
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
Trust is not blindly given. It must be built over time.
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Time Trust
If we could execute with a monumental effort just to reach an immediate goal that everyone could see, we could then continue to the next visually.
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Effort Goal See
leadership is the single greatest factor in any team’s performance.
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Leadership Team
That’s it. When things are going bad: Don’t get all bummed out, don’t get startled, don’t get frustrated. No. Just look at the issue and say: Good.
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Bad Goodness Issue

We wrote this so that the leadership lessons can continue to impact teams beyond the battlefield in all leadership situations—any company, team, or organization in which a group of people strives to achieve a goal and accomplish a mission.

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We wrote this so that the leadership lessons can continue to impact teams beyond the battlefield in all leadership situations—any company, team, or organization in which a group of people strives to achieve a goal and accomplish a mission.

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