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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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For this reason, they must believe in the cause for which they are fighting.
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Believe Fight Inspirational Reason
Cover and Move, Simple, Prioritize and Execute, and Decentralized Command.
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Act Simplicity
Our freedom to operate and maneuver had increased substantially through disciplined procedures. Discipline equals freedom.
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Discipline Equality Freedom Ourselves
Repetitive exceptional performance became a habit.
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Performance
Leaders must accept total responsibility, own problems that inhibit performance, and develop solutions to those problems.
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Acceptance Development Leadership Problem Responsibility
Don’t ask your leader what you should do, tell them what you are going to do.
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Future Leadership Yourself
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
The best leaders are not driven by ego or personal agendas.
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Leadership Virtue
Establishing an effective and repeatable planning process is critical to the success of any team.
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Establishment Planning Success Team
A good leader has nothing to prove, but everything to prove.
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Deep Goodness Leadership
Leadership is simple, but not easy.
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Easy Leadership Simplicity
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
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
There is no growth in the comfort zone.
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Comfortable Growth One Liner
Most important of all, he believed winning was possible.
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Believe Himself Important Possible Win
Remember to keep your ego in check. Don’t judge people.
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Judgement People Remember Yourself
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
A mission statement tells your troops what you are doing.
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Team Yourself
Leadership requires finding the equilibrium in the dichotomy of many seemingly contradictory qualities, between one extreme and another.
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Leadership Quality
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
The only meaningful measure for a leader is whether the team succeeds or fails.
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Failure Success Team
Decisively engaged?
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Decision Marriage
Although discipline demands control and asceticism, it actually results in freedom. When you have the discipline to get up early, you are rewarded with more free time.
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Control Discipline Freedom Result Time
If we could execute with a monumental effort just to reach an immediate goal that everyone could see, we could then continue to the next visually.
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Effort Goal See
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
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
When it comes to standards, as a leader, it’s not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate.
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Leadership Philosophy Tolerance

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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