The focus must always be on how to best accomplish the mission.
JOCKO WILLINKMost important of all, he believed winning was possible.
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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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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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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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Get after it.
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Departments and groups within the team must break down silos, depend on each other and understand who depends on them.
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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 requires finding the equilibrium in the dichotomy of many seemingly contradictory qualities, between one extreme and another.
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Most important of all, he believed winning was possible.
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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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For this reason, they must believe in the cause for which they are fighting.
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A leader must lead but also be ready to follow. Sometimes, another member of the team—perhaps a subordinate or direct report—might be in a better position to develop a plan, make a decision, or lead through a specific situation.
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Establishing an effective and repeatable planning process is critical to the success of any team.
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If we could execute with a monumental effort just to reach an immediate goal that everyone could see, we could then continue to the next visually.
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There is no easy way.
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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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A mission statement tells your troops what you are doing.
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Take care of your gear and your gear will take care of you.
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Such concepts are simple, but not easy,
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Trust is not blindly given. It must be built over time.
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Plans and orders must be communicated in a manner that is simple, clear, and concise. Everyone
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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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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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The U.S. Navy SEAL Teams were at the forefront of this leadership transformation, emerging from the triumphs and tragedies of war with a crystallized understanding of what it takes to succeed in the most challenging environments that combat presents.
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Repetitive exceptional performance became a habit.
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Relax. Look around. Make a call.
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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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