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Departments and groups within the team must break down silos, depend on each other and understand who depends on them.

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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
Discipline equals freedom.
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Discipline Equality Freedom One Liner
The test for a successful brief is simple: Do the team and the supporting elements understand it?
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Success Team Understand
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
Our freedom to operate and maneuver had increased substantially through disciplined procedures. Discipline equals freedom.
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Discipline Equality Freedom Ourselves
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
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
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
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
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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Achievement Belief Leadership Learning Perseverance Possible Victory
For this reason, they must believe in the cause for which they are fighting.
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Believe Fight Inspirational Reason
Remember to keep your ego in check. Don’t judge people.
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Judgement People Remember Yourself
And the more you build your will by doing hard things, the stronger your will becomes.
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Strong Willing Yourself
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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Blame Development Failure Leadership Mistake Oneself Win
Calm but not robotic, logical but not devoid of emotions.
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Emotional Logic Technology
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

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