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The greatest of these was the recognition that leadership is the most important factor on the battlefield, the single greatest reason behind the success of any team.

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Remember to keep your ego in check. Don’t judge people.
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Judgement People Remember Yourself
People do not follow robots.
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People Technology
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
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
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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Care Leadership Risk Time
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
I can remember many times when my boat crew struggled. It was easy to make excuses for our team’s performance and why it wasn’t what it should have been. But I learned that good leaders don’t make excuses. Instead, they figure out a way to get it done and win.
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Goodness Leadership Learning Myself Remember Struggle Time Win
Such concepts are simple, but not easy,
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Easy Simplicity
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
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
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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Reading Start
For leaders, the humility to admit and own mistakes and develop a plan to overcome them is essential to success. The best leaders are not driven by ego or personal agendas. They are simply focused on the mission and how best to accomplish it.
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Accomplishment Development Focus Humility Leadership Mistake Simplicity
Most important of all, he believed winning was possible.
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Believe Himself Important Possible Win
The test for a successful brief is simple: Do the team and the supporting elements understand it?
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Success Team Understand
Plans and orders must be communicated in a manner that is simple, clear, and concise. Everyone
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Planning Simplicity
For this reason, they must believe in the cause for which they are fighting.
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Believe Fight Inspirational Reason

The greatest of these was the recognition that leadership is the most important factor on the battlefield, the single greatest reason behind the success of any team.

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