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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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And the more you build your will by doing hard things, the stronger your will becomes.
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Strong Willing Yourself
There is no easy way.
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Easy Hard Time Inspirational
Relax. Look around. Make a call.
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Action Breathe Inspirational See
A mission statement tells your troops what you are doing.
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Team Yourself
The leader must own everything in his or her world.
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Himself Leadership World
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
We wrote this so that the leadership lessons can continue to impact teams beyond the battlefield in all leadership situations—any company, team, or organization in which a group of people strives to achieve a goal and accomplish a mission.
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Accomplishment Company Leadership Lesson People Team
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
The test for a successful brief is simple: Do the team and the supporting elements understand it?
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Success Team Understand
People do not follow robots.
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People Technology
Calm but not robotic, logical but not devoid of emotions.
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Emotional Logic Technology
All elements within the greater team are crucial and must work together to accomplish the mission, mutually supporting one another for that singular purpose.
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Accomplishment Greatness Support Team Togetherness
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 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
But, in fact, discipline is the pathway to freedom.
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Discipline Freedom
There is no growth in the comfort zone.
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Comfortable Growth One Liner

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

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