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Waiting for the 100 percent right and certain solution leads to delay, indecision, and an inability to execute.

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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
leadership is the single greatest factor in any team’s performance.
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Leadership Team
Decisively engaged?
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Decision Marriage
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
Whether on the battlefield or in the business world, leaders must be comfortable accepting some level of risk.
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Business Comfortable Leadership Risk Understand War World
Plans and orders must be communicated in a manner that is simple, clear, and concise. Everyone
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Planning Simplicity
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
Establishing an effective and repeatable planning process is critical to the success of any team.
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Establishment Planning Success Team
Remember to keep your ego in check. Don’t judge people.
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Judgement People Remember Yourself
Motivation is fickle. It comes and goes.
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Motivational One Liner
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 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
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
It’s not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate.
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Deep Tolerance Yourself
Instead of letting the situation dictate our decisions, we must dictate the situation.
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Control Decision Ourselves
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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