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.
JOCKO WILLINKDon’t fight stress. Embrace it. Turn it on itself. Use it to make yourself sharper and more alert. Use it to make you think and learn and get better and smarter and more effective. Use the stress to make you a better you.
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Faster. Stronger. Smarter. More humble. Less ego.
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There is only hard work, late nights, early mornings, practice, rehearsal, repetition, study, sweat, blood, toil, frustration, and discipline.
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Leadership isn’t one person leading a team. It is a group of leaders working together, up and down the chain of command, to lead.
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Don’t ask your leader what you should do, tell them what you are going to do.
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Our freedom to operate and maneuver had increased substantially through disciplined procedures. Discipline equals freedom.
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Instead of letting the situation dictate our decisions, we must dictate the situation.
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All animals, including humans, need to see the connection between action and consequence in order to learn or react appropriately.
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Calm but not robotic, logical but not devoid of emotions.
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Get after it.
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Don’t fight stress. Embrace it. Turn it on itself. Use it to make yourself sharper and more alert. Use it to make you think and learn and get better and smarter and more effective. Use the stress to make you a better you.
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Establishing an effective and repeatable planning process is critical to the success of any team.
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Most important of all, he believed winning was possible.
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Leaders must accept total responsibility, own problems that inhibit performance, and develop solutions to those problems.
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Departments and groups within the team must break down silos, depend on each other and understand who depends on them.
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The best leaders are not driven by ego or personal agendas.
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The goal of leadership seems simple: to get people to do what they need to do to support the mission and the team.
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Relax. Look around. Make a call.
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To not move around, observe, and analyze, in order to make the best decisions possible, was to fail as a leader and fail the team.
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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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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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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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Leaders must always operate with the understanding that they are part of something greater than themselves and their own personal interests.
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Repetitive exceptional performance became a habit.
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Leadership requires finding the equilibrium in the dichotomy of many seemingly contradictory qualities, between one extreme and another.
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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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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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