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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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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
The infamous they.
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Famous One Liner
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
The Warrior Kid treats people with respect, doesn’t judge them.
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Judgement People Respect Warrior
That’s it. When things are going bad: Don’t get all bummed out, don’t get startled, don’t get frustrated. No. Just look at the issue and say: Good.
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Bad Goodness Issue
Motivation is fickle. It comes and goes.
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Motivational One Liner
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
Even the most competent of leaders can be overwhelmed if they try to tackle multiple problems or a number of tasks simultaneously.
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Leadership Problem Try
When it comes to standards, as a leader, it’s not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate.
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Leadership Philosophy Tolerance
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
Take care of your gear and your gear will take care of you.
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Care Material
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
For this reason, they must believe in the cause for which they are fighting.
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Believe Fight Inspirational Reason
Most important of all, he believed winning was possible.
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Believe Himself Important Possible Win
The leader must own everything in his or her world.
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Himself Leadership World
Leadership requires finding the equilibrium in the dichotomy of many seemingly contradictory qualities, between one extreme and another.
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Leadership Quality

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