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

Jocko Willink

There is no easy way.
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Easy Hard Time Inspirational
You have to BE VIGILANT. You have to be ON GUARD. You have to HOLD THE LINE on the seemingly insignificant little things— things that shouldn’t matter—but that do.
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Importance Worth Yourself
Relax. Look around. Make a call.
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Action Breathe Inspirational See
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
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
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
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
Good leaders don’t make excuses.
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Goodness Leadership One Liner
Don’t let your mind control you. Control your mind.
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Control Inspirational Mindset Yourself
And the more you build your will by doing hard things, the stronger your will becomes.
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Strong Willing Yourself
Leadership is simple, but not easy.
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Easy Leadership Simplicity
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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Leadership Person Team Togetherness
Motivation is fickle. It comes and goes.
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Motivational One Liner
Cover and Move, Simple, Prioritize and Execute, and Decentralized Command.
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Act Simplicity
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
Good leaders are rare; bad leaders are common.
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Bad Goodness Leadership

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