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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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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
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
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
leadership is the single greatest factor in any team’s performance.
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Leadership Team
If mistakes happen, effective leaders don’t place blame on others. They take ownership of the mistakes, determine what went wrong, develop solutions to correct those mistakes and prevent them from happening again as they move forward.
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Development Leadership Mistake Wrong
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
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
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
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
There are no bad units, only bad officers. This captures the essence of what Extreme Ownership is all about.
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Bad Control Politics
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
There is no growth in the comfort zone.
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Comfortable Growth One Liner
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
The infamous they.
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Famous One Liner
Plans and orders must be communicated in a manner that is simple, clear, and concise. Everyone
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Planning Simplicity
The leader must own everything in his or her world.
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Himself Leadership World
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
Trust is not blindly given. It must be built over time.
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Time Trust
The Warrior Kid treats people with respect, doesn’t judge them.
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Judgement People Respect Warrior
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
Cover and Move, Simple, Prioritize and Execute, and Decentralized Command.
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Act Simplicity
Discipline equals freedom.
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Discipline Equality Freedom One Liner
Good leaders are rare; bad leaders are common.
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Bad Goodness Leadership
Most important of all, he believed winning was possible.
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Believe Himself Important Possible Win
People do not follow robots.
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People Technology
The greatest of these was the recognition that leadership is the most important factor on the battlefield, the single greatest reason behind the success of any team.
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Greatness 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

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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