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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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Remember: the enemy gets a vote.
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Democracy Enemy Remember
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
A mission statement tells your troops what you are doing.
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Team Yourself
Establishing an effective and repeatable planning process is critical to the success of any team.
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Establishment Planning Success Team
Plans and orders must be communicated in a manner that is simple, clear, and concise. Everyone
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Planning Simplicity
And the more you build your will by doing hard things, the stronger your will becomes.
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Strong Willing Yourself
Leaders must always operate with the understanding that they are part of something greater than themselves and their own personal interests.
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Greatness Leadership 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
So how can a leader become great if they lack the natural characteristics necessary to lead? The answer is simple: a good leader builds a great team that counterbalances their weaknesses.
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Greatness Leadership Necessary Simplicity Team Weakness
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
Discipline equals freedom.
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Discipline Equality Freedom One Liner
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
Remember to keep your ego in check. Don’t judge people.
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Judgement People Remember Yourself
The U.S. Navy SEAL Teams were at the forefront of this leadership transformation, emerging from the triumphs and tragedies of war with a crystallized understanding of what it takes to succeed in the most challenging environments that combat presents.
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Challenge Leadership Present Success Team Tragedy Transformation Understand War Win
For this reason, they must believe in the cause for which they are fighting.
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Believe Fight Inspirational Reason
After all, there can be no leadership where there is no team.
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