After all, there can be no leadership where there is no team.
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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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After all, there can be no leadership where there is no team.
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The focus must always be on how to best accomplish the mission.
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Extreme Ownership. Leaders must own everything in their world. There is no one else to blame.
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Instead of letting the situation dictate our decisions, we must dictate the situation.
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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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Leaders must accept total responsibility, own problems that inhibit performance, and develop solutions to those problems.
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Plans and orders must be communicated in a manner that is simple, clear, and concise. Everyone
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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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And the more you build your will by doing hard things, the stronger your will becomes.
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His realistic assessment, acknowledgment of failure, and ownership of the problem were key to developing a plan to improve performance and ultimately win.
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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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The best leaders are not driven by ego or personal agendas.
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Leadership requires finding the equilibrium in the dichotomy of many seemingly contradictory qualities, between one extreme and another.
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Most important of all, he believed winning was possible.
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Good leaders don’t make excuses.
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More than a decade of continuous war and tough combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan gave birth to a new generation of leaders in the ranks of America’s fighting forces.
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