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Good leaders are rare; bad leaders are common.

Jocko Willink

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
The focus must always be on how to best accomplish the mission.
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Accomplishment Best Focus
Repetitive exceptional performance became a habit.
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Performance
But we can’t ever think we are too good to fail or that our enemies are not capable, deadly, and eager to exploit our weaknesses. We must never get complacent. This is where controlling the ego is most important.
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Control Enemy Failure Goodness Important Thinking
Don’t try to plan for every contingency. Doing so will only overburden you and weigh you down so that you cannot quickly maneuver.
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Quick Try Willing Yourself
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
Take care of your gear and your gear will take care of you.
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Care Material
There is no one else to blame. The leader must acknowledge mistakes and admit failures, take ownership of them, and develop a plan to win.
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Blame Development Failure Leadership Mistake Oneself Win
Decisively engaged?
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Decision Marriage
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
Calm but not robotic, logical but not devoid of emotions.
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Emotional Logic Technology
Remember to keep your ego in check. Don’t judge people.
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Judgement People Remember Yourself
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
Motivation is fickle. It comes and goes.
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Motivational One Liner
Staying ahead of the curve prevents a leader from being overwhelmed when pressure is applied and enables greater decisiveness.
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Decision Force Greatness Leadership Stay
Such concepts are simple, but not easy,
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Easy Simplicity

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