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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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Remember to keep your ego in check. Don’t judge people.
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Judgement People Remember Yourself
The U.S. Navy SEAL Teams were at the forefront of this leadership transformation, emerging from the triumphs and tragedies of war with a crystallized understanding of what it takes to succeed in the most challenging environments that combat presents.
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Challenge Leadership Present Success Team Tragedy Transformation Understand War Win
After all, there can be no leadership where there is no team.
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Leadership Team
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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Friendship Goal Simplicity Support Team
Instead of letting the situation dictate our decisions, we must dictate the situation.
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Control Decision Ourselves
For this reason, they must believe in the cause for which they are fighting.
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Believe Fight Inspirational Reason
Cover and Move, Simple, Prioritize and Execute, and Decentralized Command.
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Act Simplicity
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
Although discipline demands control and asceticism, it actually results in freedom. When you have the discipline to get up early, you are rewarded with more free time.
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Control Discipline Freedom Result Time
Our freedom to operate and maneuver had increased substantially through disciplined procedures. Discipline equals freedom.
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Discipline Equality Freedom Ourselves
Good leaders are rare; bad leaders are common.
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Bad Goodness Leadership
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
Most important of all, he believed winning was possible.
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Believe Himself Important Possible Win
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 ask your leader what you should do, tell them what you are going to do.
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Future Leadership Yourself
Remember: the enemy gets a vote.
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Democracy Enemy Remember

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