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Repetitive exceptional performance became a habit.
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Performance
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
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
The focus must always be on how to best accomplish the mission.
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Accomplishment Best Focus
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
Calm but not robotic, logical but not devoid of emotions.
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Emotional Logic Technology
The Warrior Kid treats people with respect, doesn’t judge them.
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Judgement People Respect Warrior
Most important of all, he believed winning was possible.
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Believe Himself Important Possible Win
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
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
I had to take ownership of everything that went wrong. Despite the tremendous blow to my reputation and to my ego, it was the right thing to do—the only thing to do. I
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Myself Reputation Responsibility Right Time
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
Establishing an effective and repeatable planning process is critical to the success of any team.
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Establishment Planning Success Team
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
A good leader has nothing to prove, but everything to prove.
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Deep Goodness Leadership
As a leader, you have to balance the dichotomy, to be resolute where it matters but never inflexible and uncompromising on matters of little importance to the overall good of the team and the strategic mission.
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Goodness Importance Leadership Team

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