Our egos don’t like to take blame.
JOCKO WILLINKCalm but not robotic, logical but not devoid of emotions.
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The focus must always be on how to best accomplish the mission.
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Leadership is simple, but not easy.
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Establishing an effective and repeatable planning process is critical to the success of any team.
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There is only hard work, late nights, early mornings, practice, rehearsal, repetition, study, sweat, blood, toil, frustration, and discipline.
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Get after it.
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Don’t ask your leader what you should do, tell them what you are going to do.
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All animals, including humans, need to see the connection between action and consequence in order to learn or react appropriately.
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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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But, in fact, discipline is the pathway to freedom.
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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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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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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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leadership is the single greatest factor in any team’s performance.
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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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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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