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Decisively engaged?

Jocko Willink

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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Decision Development Leadership Team
That’s it. When things are going bad: Don’t get all bummed out, don’t get startled, don’t get frustrated. No. Just look at the issue and say: Good.
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Bad Goodness Issue
We learned that leadership requires belief in the mission and unyielding perseverance to achieve victory, particularly when doubters question whether victory is even possible.
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Achievement Belief Leadership Learning Perseverance Possible Victory
Don’t let your mind control you. Control your mind.
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Control Inspirational Mindset Yourself
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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Planning Simplicity Team Understand
Departments and groups within the team must break down silos, depend on each other and understand who depends on them.
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Break Independent Team Understand
And the more you build your will by doing hard things, the stronger your will becomes.
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Strong Willing Yourself
Instead of letting the situation dictate our decisions, we must dictate the situation.
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Control Decision Ourselves
A good leader has nothing to prove, but everything to prove.
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Deep Goodness Leadership
The test for a successful brief is simple: Do the team and the supporting elements understand it?
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Success Team Understand
Good leaders don’t make excuses.
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Goodness Leadership One Liner
Trust is not blindly given. It must be built over time.
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Time Trust
Faster. Stronger. Smarter. More humble. Less ego.
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Humble Instagram Captions Strong
The best leaders are not driven by ego or personal agendas.
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Leadership Virtue
The infamous they.
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Famous One Liner
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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Best Decision Failure Leadership Possible Team

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