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

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A good leader does not get bogged down in the minutia of a tactical problem at the expense of strategic success.
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Goodness Leadership Problem Success
Plans and orders must be communicated in a manner that is simple, clear, and concise. Everyone
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Planning Simplicity
Extreme Ownership. Leaders must own everything in their world. There is no one else to blame.
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Blame Leadership World
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
The most fundamental and important truths at the heart of Extreme Ownership: there are no bad teams, only bad leaders.
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Bad Fundamental Heart Important Leadership Team Truth
The best leaders are not driven by ego or personal agendas.
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Leadership Virtue
Remember to keep your ego in check. Don’t judge people.
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Judgement People Remember Yourself
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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Leadership Person Team Togetherness
Calm but not robotic, logical but not devoid of emotions.
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Emotional Logic Technology
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
Cover and Move, Simple, Prioritize and Execute, and Decentralized Command.
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Act Simplicity
We learned that leadership requires belief in the mission and unyielding perseverance to achieve victory, particularly when doubters question whether victory is even possible.
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Achievement Belief Leadership Learning Perseverance Possible Victory
Good leaders don’t make excuses.
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Goodness Leadership One Liner
As a leader, you have to balance the dichotomy, to be resolute where it matters but never inflexible and uncompromising on matters of little importance to the overall good of the team and the strategic mission.
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Goodness Importance Leadership Team
People do not follow robots.
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People Technology
The only meaningful measure for a leader is whether the team succeeds or fails.
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Failure Success Team

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