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As a leader, you have to balance the dichotomy, to be resolute where it matters but never inflexible and uncompromising on matters of little importance to the overall good of the team and the strategic mission.

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Trust is not blindly given. It must be built over time.
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Time Trust
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
leadership is the single greatest factor in any team’s performance.
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Leadership Team
Our egos don’t like to take blame.
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Blame Ourselves
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
It’s not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate.
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Deep Tolerance Yourself
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
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
The leader must own everything in his or her world.
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Himself Leadership World
Take care of your gear and your gear will take care of you.
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Care Material
All animals, including humans, need to see the connection between action and consequence in order to learn or react appropriately.
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Action Animal Connection Human Learning
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
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
The most impressive thing about this improvement in performance was that it did not come from a major process change or an advance in technology. Instead, it came through a leadership principle that has been around for ages: Simple.
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Age Change Improvement Leadership Simplicity Technology
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

As a leader, you have to balance the dichotomy, to be resolute where it matters but never inflexible and uncompromising on matters of little importance to the overall good of the team and the strategic mission.

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