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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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In the business world, and in life, there are inherent complexities. It is critical to keep plans and communication simple.
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Business Life Simplicity World
And the more you build your will by doing hard things, the stronger your will becomes.
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Strong Willing Yourself
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
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
leadership is the single greatest factor in any team’s performance.
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Leadership Team
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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Good leaders don’t make excuses.
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Goodness Leadership 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
But we can’t ever think we are too good to fail or that our enemies are not capable, deadly, and eager to exploit our weaknesses. We must never get complacent. This is where controlling the ego is most important.
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Control Enemy Failure Goodness Important Thinking
When it comes to standards, as a leader, it’s not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate. When setting expectations, no matter what has been said or written, if substandard performance is accepted and no one is held accountable.
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Acceptance Expectation Leadership Tolerance
Plans and orders must be communicated in a manner that is simple, clear, and concise. Everyone
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Planning Simplicity
Faster. Stronger. Smarter. More humble. Less ego.
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Humble Instagram Captions Strong
Instead of letting the situation dictate our decisions, we must dictate the situation.
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Control Decision Ourselves
The only meaningful measure for a leader is whether the team succeeds or fails.
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Failure Success Team
Although discipline demands control and asceticism, it actually results in freedom. When you have the discipline to get up early, you are rewarded with more free time.
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Control Discipline Freedom Result Time
The test for a successful brief is simple: Do the team and the supporting elements understand it?
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Success Team Understand

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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