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Even the most competent of leaders can be overwhelmed if they try to tackle multiple problems or a number of tasks simultaneously.

Jocko Willink

So how can a leader become great if they lack the natural characteristics necessary to lead? The answer is simple: a good leader builds a great team that counterbalances their weaknesses.
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Greatness Leadership Necessary Simplicity Team Weakness
Instead of letting the situation dictate our decisions, we must dictate the situation.
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Control Decision Ourselves
Our egos don’t like to take blame.
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Blame Ourselves
Take care of your gear and your gear will take care of you.
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Care Material
There is no easy way.
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Easy Hard Time Inspirational
In the SEAL Teams, the bond of our brotherhood is our strongest weapon. If you take that away from us, we lose our most important quality as a team.
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Important Lose Quality Relationship Strong Team Weapon
Remember: the enemy gets a vote.
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Democracy Enemy Remember
When it comes to standards, as a leader, it’s not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate. When setting expectations, no matter what has been said or written, if substandard performance is accepted and no one is held accountable.
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Acceptance Expectation Leadership Tolerance
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 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
Waiting for the 100 percent right and certain solution leads to delay, indecision, and an inability to execute.
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Ability Action Decision Right Wait
The infamous they.
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Famous One Liner
Discipline equals freedom.
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Discipline Equality Freedom One Liner
The test for a successful brief is simple: Do the team and the supporting elements understand it?
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Success Team Understand
People do not follow robots.
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People Technology
Leadership requires finding the equilibrium in the dichotomy of many seemingly contradictory qualities, between one extreme and another.
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Leadership Quality

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