After all, there can be no leadership where there is no team.
JOCKO WILLINKTrust is not blindly given. It must be built over time.
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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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In the business world, and in life, there are inherent complexities. It is critical to keep plans and communication simple.
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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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But, in fact, discipline is the pathway to freedom.
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Stop researching every aspect of it and reading all about it and debating the pros and cons of it, Start doing it.
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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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There is no easy way.
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There is only hard work, late nights, early mornings, practice, rehearsal, repetition, study, sweat, blood, toil, frustration, and discipline.
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Departments and groups within the team must break down silos, depend on each other and understand who depends on them.
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Decisively engaged?
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When it comes to standards, as a leader, it’s not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate. When setting expectations, no matter what has been said or written, if substandard performance is accepted and no one is held accountable.
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Take care of your gear and your gear will take care of you.
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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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Motivation is fickle. It comes and goes.
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Good leaders don’t make excuses.
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