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The only meaningful measure for a leader is whether the team succeeds or fails.

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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
If mistakes happen, effective leaders don’t place blame on others. They take ownership of the mistakes, determine what went wrong, develop solutions to correct those mistakes and prevent them from happening again as they move forward.
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Development Leadership Mistake Wrong
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
The Warrior Kid treats people with respect, doesn’t judge them.
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Judgement People Respect Warrior
Plans and orders must be communicated in a manner that is simple, clear, and concise. Everyone
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Planning Simplicity
There is no growth in the comfort zone.
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Comfortable Growth One Liner
Remember to keep your ego in check. Don’t judge people.
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Judgement People Remember Yourself
The focus must always be on how to best accomplish the mission.
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Accomplishment Best Focus
Most important of all, he believed winning was possible.
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Believe Himself Important Possible Win
The only meaningful measure for a leader is whether the team succeeds or fails.
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Failure Success Team
Is this what I want to be? This? Is this all I’ve got—is this everything I can give? Is this going to be my life? Do I accept that?
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Acceptance Generosity Life Myself Philosophy
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
The U.S. Navy SEAL Teams were at the forefront of this leadership transformation, emerging from the triumphs and tragedies of war with a crystallized understanding of what it takes to succeed in the most challenging environments that combat presents.
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Challenge Leadership Present Success Team Tragedy Transformation Understand War Win
leadership is the single greatest factor in any team’s performance.
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Leadership Team
Extreme Ownership. Leaders must own everything in their world. There is no one else to blame.
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Blame Leadership World
The best leaders are not driven by ego or personal agendas.
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Leadership Virtue

The only meaningful measure for a leader is whether the team succeeds or fails.

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