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Whether on the battlefield or in the business world, leaders must be comfortable accepting some level of risk.

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Decisively engaged?
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Decision Marriage
Don’t let your mind control you. Control your mind.
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Control Inspirational Mindset Yourself
I can remember many times when my boat crew struggled. It was easy to make excuses for our team’s performance and why it wasn’t what it should have been. But I learned that good leaders don’t make excuses. Instead, they figure out a way to get it done and win.
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Goodness Leadership Learning Myself Remember Struggle Time Win
More than a decade of continuous war and tough combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan gave birth to a new generation of leaders in the ranks of America’s fighting forces.
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Born Fight Force Leadership Tough War
So how can a leader become great if they lack the natural characteristics necessary to lead? The answer is simple: a good leader builds a great team that counterbalances their weaknesses.
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Greatness Leadership Necessary Simplicity Team Weakness
Good leaders are rare; bad leaders are common.
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Bad Goodness Leadership
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
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
Departments and groups within the team must break down silos, depend on each other and understand who depends on them.
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Break Independent Team Understand
Cover and Move, Simple, Prioritize and Execute, and Decentralized Command.
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Act Simplicity
The focus must always be on how to best accomplish the mission.
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Accomplishment Best Focus
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 infamous they.
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Famous 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 best leaders are not driven by ego or personal agendas.
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Leadership Virtue
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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Acceptance Generosity Life Myself Philosophy

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