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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.

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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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Fight Learning Thinking
And the more you build your will by doing hard things, the stronger your will becomes.
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Strong Willing Yourself
It’s not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate.
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Deep Tolerance Yourself
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
The only meaningful measure for a leader is whether the team succeeds or fails.
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Failure Success Team
Remember: the enemy gets a vote.
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Democracy Enemy Remember
Don’t expect to be motivated every day to get out there and make things happen. You won’t be. Don’t count on motivation. Count on Discipline.
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Discipline Expectation Motivational
Good leaders don’t make excuses.
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Goodness Leadership One Liner
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
A good leader does not get bogged down in the minutia of a tactical problem at the expense of strategic success.
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Goodness Leadership Problem Success
The test for a successful brief is simple: Do the team and the supporting elements understand it?
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Success Team Understand
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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Greatness Leadership Understand
But, in fact, discipline is the pathway to freedom.
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Discipline Freedom
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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Leadership Person Team Togetherness
After all, there can be no leadership where there is no team.
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Leadership Team
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

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