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All animals, including humans, need to see the connection between action and consequence in order to learn or react appropriately.

Jocko Willink

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
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
Such concepts are simple, but not easy,
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Easy Simplicity
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 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
Faster. Stronger. Smarter. More humble. Less ego.
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Humble Instagram Captions Strong
Once people stop making excuses, stop blaming others, and take ownership of everything in their lives, they are compelled to take action to solve their problems.
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Action Blame Live People Problem
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
Don’t let your mind control you. Control your mind.
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Control Inspirational Mindset Yourself
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
Leadership is simple, but not easy.
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Easy Leadership Simplicity
After all, there can be no leadership where there is no team.
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Leadership Team
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
His realistic assessment, acknowledgment of failure, and ownership of the problem were key to developing a plan to improve performance and ultimately win.
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Development Failure Himself Improvement Problem Win
Instead of letting the situation dictate our decisions, we must dictate the situation.
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Control Decision Ourselves
A mission statement tells your troops what you are doing.
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Team Yourself
As a leader, it is up to you to explain the bigger picture to him—and to all your front line leaders. That is a critical component of leadership
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Explanation Leadership Photograpgh
Remember: the enemy gets a vote.
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Democracy Enemy Remember
The focus must always be on how to best accomplish the mission.
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Accomplishment Best Focus
Cover and Move, Simple, Prioritize and Execute, and Decentralized Command.
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Act Simplicity
Waiting for the 100 percent right and certain solution leads to delay, indecision, and an inability to execute.
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Ability Action Decision Right Wait
Repetitive exceptional performance became a habit.
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Performance
We wrote this so that the leadership lessons can continue to impact teams beyond the battlefield in all leadership situations—any company, team, or organization in which a group of people strives to achieve a goal and accomplish a mission.
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Accomplishment Company Leadership Lesson People Team
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
Discipline equals freedom.
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Discipline Equality Freedom One Liner
Even the most competent of leaders can be overwhelmed if they try to tackle multiple problems or a number of tasks simultaneously.
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Leadership Problem Try
leadership is the single greatest factor in any team’s performance.
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Leadership Team

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