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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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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
Trust is not blindly given. It must be built over time.
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Time Trust
For leaders, the humility to admit and own mistakes and develop a plan to overcome them is essential to success. The best leaders are not driven by ego or personal agendas. They are simply focused on the mission and how best to accomplish it.
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Accomplishment Development Focus Humility Leadership Mistake Simplicity
Good leaders are rare; bad leaders are common.
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Bad Goodness Leadership
For this reason, they must believe in the cause for which they are fighting.
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Believe Fight Inspirational Reason
Establishing an effective and repeatable planning process is critical to the success of any team.
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Establishment Planning Success Team
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
Remember to keep your ego in check. Don’t judge people.
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Judgement People Remember Yourself
Leaders must accept total responsibility, own problems that inhibit performance, and develop solutions to those problems.
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Acceptance Development Leadership Problem Responsibility
A mission statement tells your troops what you are doing.
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Team Yourself
Calm but not robotic, logical but not devoid of emotions.
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Emotional Logic Technology
The focus must always be on how to best accomplish the mission.
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Accomplishment Best Focus
Instead of letting the situation dictate our decisions, we must dictate the situation.
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Control Decision Ourselves
So how can a leader become great if they lack the natural characteristics necessary to lead? The answer is simple: a good leader builds a great team that counterbalances their weaknesses.
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Greatness Leadership Necessary Simplicity Team Weakness
Plans and orders must be communicated in a manner that is simple, clear, and concise. Everyone
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Planning Simplicity
His realistic assessment, acknowledgment of failure, and ownership of the problem were key to developing a plan to improve performance and ultimately win.
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Development Failure Himself Improvement Problem Win

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