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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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Extreme Ownership. Leaders must own everything in their world. There is no one else to blame.
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Blame Leadership World
You have to BE VIGILANT. You have to be ON GUARD. You have to HOLD THE LINE on the seemingly insignificant little things— things that shouldn’t matter—but that do.
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Importance Worth Yourself
The most impressive thing about this improvement in performance was that it did not come from a major process change or an advance in technology. Instead, it came through a leadership principle that has been around for ages: Simple.
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Age Change Improvement Leadership Simplicity Technology
There is no growth in the comfort zone.
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Comfortable Growth One Liner
To not move around, observe, and analyze, in order to make the best decisions possible, was to fail as a leader and fail the team.
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Best Decision Failure Leadership Possible Team
Discipline equals freedom.
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Discipline Equality Freedom One Liner
Good leaders are rare; bad leaders are common.
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Bad Goodness Leadership
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
And the more you build your will by doing hard things, the stronger your will becomes.
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Strong Willing Yourself
All animals, including humans, need to see the connection between action and consequence in order to learn or react appropriately.
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Action Animal Connection Human Learning
The focus must always be on how to best accomplish the mission.
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Accomplishment Best Focus
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
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
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
In the business world, and in life, there are inherent complexities. It is critical to keep plans and communication simple.
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Business Life Simplicity World
Don’t fight stress. Embrace it. Turn it on itself. Use it to make yourself sharper and more alert. Use it to make you think and learn and get better and smarter and more effective. Use the stress to make you a better you.
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Fight Learning Thinking

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