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

Jocko Willink

There is only hard work, late nights, early mornings, practice, rehearsal, repetition, study, sweat, blood, toil, frustration, and discipline.
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Discipline Inspirational Morning Night Practice Success
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
The only meaningful measure for a leader is whether the team succeeds or fails.
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Failure Success Team
When it comes to standards, as a leader, it’s not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate.
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Leadership Philosophy Tolerance
Whether on the battlefield or in the business world, leaders must be comfortable accepting some level of risk.
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Business Comfortable Leadership Risk Understand War World
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
His realistic assessment, acknowledgment of failure, and ownership of the problem were key to developing a plan to improve performance and ultimately win.
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Development Failure Himself Improvement Problem Win
The best leaders are not driven by ego or personal agendas.
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Leadership Virtue
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
The focus must always be on how to best accomplish the mission.
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Accomplishment Best Focus
Cover and Move, Simple, Prioritize and Execute, and Decentralized Command.
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Act Simplicity
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
Calm but not robotic, logical but not devoid of emotions.
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Emotional Logic Technology
Discipline equals freedom.
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Discipline Equality Freedom One Liner
A good leader has nothing to prove, but everything to prove.
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Deep Goodness Leadership
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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Goodness Importance Leadership Team

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