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Don’t let your mind control you. Control your mind.

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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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Ability Action Decision Right Wait
Most important of all, he believed winning was possible.
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Believe Himself Important Possible Win
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
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
People do not follow robots.
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People Technology
The best leaders are not driven by ego or personal agendas.
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Leadership Virtue
We wrote this so that the leadership lessons can continue to impact teams beyond the battlefield in all leadership situations—any company, team, or organization in which a group of people strives to achieve a goal and accomplish a mission.
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Accomplishment Company Leadership Lesson People Team
In the business world, and in life, there are inherent complexities. It is critical to keep plans and communication simple.
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Business Life Simplicity World
Our freedom to operate and maneuver had increased substantially through disciplined procedures. Discipline equals freedom.
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Discipline Equality Freedom Ourselves
The leader must own everything in his or her world.
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Himself Leadership World
Plans and orders must be communicated in a manner that is simple, clear, and concise. Everyone
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Planning Simplicity
The infamous they.
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Famous One Liner
The only meaningful measure for a leader is whether the team succeeds or fails.
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Failure Success Team
Departments and groups within the team must break down silos, depend on each other and understand who depends on them.
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Break Independent Team Understand
Our egos don’t like to take blame.
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Blame Ourselves
Even the most competent of leaders can be overwhelmed if they try to tackle multiple problems or a number of tasks simultaneously.
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