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When it comes to standards, as a leader, it’s not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate.

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A mission statement tells your troops what you are doing.
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Team Yourself
After all, there can be no leadership where there is no team.
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Leadership 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
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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Effort Goal See
Our egos don’t like to take blame.
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Blame Ourselves
Get after it.
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Inspirational One Liner
Such concepts are simple, but not easy,
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Easy Simplicity
The most fundamental and important truths at the heart of Extreme Ownership: there are no bad teams, only bad leaders.
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Bad Fundamental Heart Important Leadership Team Truth
There is no easy way.
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Easy Hard Time Inspirational
Trust is not blindly given. It must be built over time.
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Time Trust
The infamous they.
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Famous One Liner
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
Faster. Stronger. Smarter. More humble. Less ego.
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Humble Instagram Captions Strong
Take care of your gear and your gear will take care of you.
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Care Material
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
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

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