That’s it. When things are going bad: Don’t get all bummed out, don’t get startled, don’t get frustrated. No. Just look at the issue and say: Good.
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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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Good leaders don’t make excuses.
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Decisively engaged?
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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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leadership is the single greatest factor in any team’s performance.
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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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Waiting for the 100 percent right and certain solution leads to delay, indecision, and an inability to execute.
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You have to BE VIGILANT. You have to be ON GUARD. You have to HOLD THE LINE on the seemingly insignificant little things— things that shouldn’t matter—but that do.
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Instead of letting the situation dictate our decisions, we must dictate the situation.
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I had to take ownership of everything that went wrong. Despite the tremendous blow to my reputation and to my ego, it was the right thing to do—the only thing to do. I
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The only meaningful measure for a leader is whether the team succeeds or fails.
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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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There is only hard work, late nights, early mornings, practice, rehearsal, repetition, study, sweat, blood, toil, frustration, and discipline.
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Such concepts are simple, but not easy,
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A leader must lead but also be ready to follow. Sometimes, another member of the team—perhaps a subordinate or direct report—might be in a better position to develop a plan, make a decision, or lead through a specific situation.
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A good leader has nothing to prove, but everything to prove.
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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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People do not follow robots.
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A good leader does not get bogged down in the minutia of a tactical problem at the expense of strategic success.
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Plans and orders must be communicated in a manner that is simple, clear, and concise. Everyone
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As a leader, you have to balance the dichotomy, to be resolute where it matters but never inflexible and uncompromising on matters of little importance to the overall good of the team and the strategic mission.
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For this reason, they must believe in the cause for which they are fighting.
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When it comes to standards, as a leader, it’s not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate.
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If we could execute with a monumental effort just to reach an immediate goal that everyone could see, we could then continue to the next visually.
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Leadership isn’t one person leading a team. It is a group of leaders working together, up and down the chain of command, to lead.
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Establishing an effective and repeatable planning process is critical to the success of any team.
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