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In the business world, and in life, there are inherent complexities. It is critical to keep plans and communication simple.

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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
Such concepts are simple, but not easy,
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Easy Simplicity
But, in fact, discipline is the pathway to freedom.
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Discipline Freedom
leadership is the single greatest factor in any team’s performance.
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Leadership Team
Plans and orders must be communicated in a manner that is simple, clear, and concise. Everyone
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Planning Simplicity
Remember: the enemy gets a vote.
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Democracy Enemy Remember
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
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
It’s not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate.
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Deep Tolerance Yourself
Don’t ask your leader what you should do, tell them what you are going to do.
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Future Leadership Yourself
If we could execute with a monumental effort just to reach an immediate goal that everyone could see, we could then continue to the next visually.
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Effort Goal See
The only meaningful measure for a leader is whether the team succeeds or fails.
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Failure Success Team
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
A leader must care about the troops, but at the same time the leader must complete the mission, and in doing so there will be risk and sometimes unavoidable consequences to the troops.
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Care Leadership Risk Time
The Warrior Kid treats people with respect, doesn’t judge them.
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Judgement People Respect Warrior
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

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