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Leadership isn’t one person leading a team. It is a group of leaders working together, up and down the chain of command, to lead.

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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
Generally, when a leader struggles, the root cause behind the problem is that the leader has leaned too far in one direction and steered off course. Awareness.
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Direction Leader Problem Struggle
In the SEAL Teams, the bond of our brotherhood is our strongest weapon. If you take that away from us, we lose our most important quality as a team.
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Important Lose Quality Relationship Strong Team Weapon
The greatest of these was the recognition that leadership is the most important factor on the battlefield, the single greatest reason behind the success of any team.
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Greatness Leadership Team
After all, there can be no leadership where there is no team.
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Leadership Team
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
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
Don’t ask your leader what you should do, tell them what you are going to do.
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Future Leadership 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
A good leader has nothing to prove, but everything to prove.
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Deep Goodness Leadership
Don’t expect to be motivated every day to get out there and make things happen. You won’t be. Don’t count on motivation. Count on Discipline.
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Discipline Expectation Motivational
It’s not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate.
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Deep Tolerance Yourself
Remember to keep your ego in check. Don’t judge people.
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Judgement People Remember Yourself
Motivation is fickle. It comes and goes.
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Motivational 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
Our freedom to operate and maneuver had increased substantially through disciplined procedures. Discipline equals freedom.
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Discipline Equality Freedom Ourselves

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