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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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Generally, when a leader struggles, the root cause behind the problem is that the leader has leaned too far in one direction and steered off course. Awareness.
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Direction Leader Problem Struggle
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
Cover and Move, Simple, Prioritize and Execute, and Decentralized Command.
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Act Simplicity
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
After all, there can be no leadership where there is no team.
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Leadership Team
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
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
Decisively engaged?
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Decision Marriage
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
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
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
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
Such concepts are simple, but not easy,
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Easy Simplicity
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
leadership is the single greatest factor in any team’s performance.
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Leadership Team
Trust is not blindly given. It must be built over time.
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Time Trust

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

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