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As a leader, it is up to you to explain the bigger picture to him—and to all your front line leaders. That is a critical component of leadership

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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
The greatest of these was the recognition that leadership is the most important factor on the battlefield, the single greatest reason behind the success of any team.
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Greatness Leadership Team
All animals, including humans, need to see the connection between action and consequence in order to learn or react appropriately.
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Action Animal Connection Human Learning
Motivation is fickle. It comes and goes.
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Motivational One Liner
Don’t let your mind control you. Control your mind.
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Control Inspirational Mindset 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
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
There is no growth in the comfort zone.
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Comfortable Growth One Liner
Don’t try to plan for every contingency. Doing so will only overburden you and weigh you down so that you cannot quickly maneuver.
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Quick Try Willing Yourself
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
As a leader, you have to balance the dichotomy, to be resolute where it matters but never inflexible and uncompromising on matters of little importance to the overall good of the team and the strategic mission.
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Goodness Importance Leadership Team
Repetitive exceptional performance became a habit.
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Performance
A good leader has nothing to prove, but everything to prove.
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Deep Goodness Leadership
Discipline equals freedom.
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Discipline Equality Freedom One Liner
After all, there can be no leadership where there is no team.
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Leadership Team
A leader must lead but also be ready to follow. Sometimes, another member of the team—perhaps a subordinate or direct report—might be in a better position to develop a plan, make a decision, or lead through a specific situation.
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Decision Development Leadership Team

As a leader, it is up to you to explain the bigger picture to him—and to all your front line leaders. That is a critical component of leadership

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