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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.

Jocko Willink

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
A mission statement tells your troops what you are doing.
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Team Yourself
Faster. Stronger. Smarter. More humble. Less ego.
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Humble Instagram Captions Strong
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
After all, there can be no leadership where there is no team.
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Leadership Team
To not move around, observe, and analyze, in order to make the best decisions possible, was to fail as a leader and fail the team.
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Best Decision Failure Leadership Possible Team
All elements within the greater team are crucial and must work together to accomplish the mission, mutually supporting one another for that singular purpose.
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Accomplishment Greatness Support Team Togetherness
People do not follow robots.
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People Technology
Repetitive exceptional performance became a habit.
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Performance
Plans and orders must be communicated in a manner that is simple, clear, and concise. Everyone
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Planning Simplicity
Is this what I want to be? This? Is this all I’ve got—is this everything I can give? Is this going to be my life? Do I accept that?
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Acceptance Generosity Life Myself Philosophy
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
Leadership is simple, but not easy.
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Easy Leadership Simplicity
Instead of letting the situation dictate our decisions, we must dictate the situation.
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Control Decision Ourselves
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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Discipline equals freedom.
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Discipline Equality Freedom One Liner

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