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The best leaders are not driven by ego or personal agendas.

Jocko Willink

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
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
A good leader has nothing to prove, but everything to prove.
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Deep Goodness Leadership
I can remember many times when my boat crew struggled. It was easy to make excuses for our team’s performance and why it wasn’t what it should have been. But I learned that good leaders don’t make excuses. Instead, they figure out a way to get it done and win.
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Goodness Leadership Learning Myself Remember Struggle Time Win
Plans and orders must be communicated in a manner that is simple, clear, and concise. Everyone
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Planning Simplicity
leadership is the single greatest factor in any team’s performance.
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Leadership Team
Staying ahead of the curve prevents a leader from being overwhelmed when pressure is applied and enables greater decisiveness.
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Decision Force Greatness Leadership Stay
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
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
Cover and Move, Simple, Prioritize and Execute, and Decentralized Command.
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Act Simplicity
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
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
Such concepts are simple, but not easy,
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Easy Simplicity
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
Calm but not robotic, logical but not devoid of emotions.
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Emotional Logic Technology
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

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