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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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Plans and orders must be communicated in a manner that is simple, clear, and concise. Everyone
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Planning Simplicity
Don’t expect to be motivated every day to get out there and make things happen. You won’t be. Don’t count on motivation. Count on Discipline.
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Discipline Expectation Motivational
Don’t try to plan for every contingency. Doing so will only overburden you and weigh you down so that you cannot quickly maneuver.
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Quick Try Willing Yourself
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
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
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
Most important of all, he believed winning was possible.
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Believe Himself Important Possible 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
In the SEAL Teams, the bond of our brotherhood is our strongest weapon. If you take that away from us, we lose our most important quality as a team.
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Important Lose Quality Relationship Strong Team Weapon
If the plan is simple enough, everyone understands it, which means each person can rapidly adjust and modify what he or she is doing. If the plan is too complex, the team can’t make rapid adjustments to it, because there is no baseline understanding of it.
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Planning Simplicity Team Understand
The best leaders are not driven by ego or personal agendas.
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Leadership Virtue
There is only hard work, late nights, early mornings, practice, rehearsal, repetition, study, sweat, blood, toil, frustration, and discipline.
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Discipline Inspirational Morning Night Practice Success
The most impressive thing about this improvement in performance was that it did not come from a major process change or an advance in technology. Instead, it came through a leadership principle that has been around for ages: Simple.
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Age Change Improvement Leadership Simplicity Technology
The Warrior Kid treats people with respect, doesn’t judge them.
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Judgement People Respect Warrior
Leadership is simple, but not easy.
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Easy Leadership Simplicity
A mission statement tells your troops what you are doing.
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Team Yourself

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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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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