A mission statement tells your troops what you are doing.
JOCKO WILLINKDon’t expect to be motivated every day to get out there and make things happen. You won’t be. Don’t count on motivation. Count on Discipline.
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Plans and orders must be communicated in a manner that is simple, clear, and concise. Everyone
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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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But, in fact, discipline is the pathway to freedom.
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All animals, including humans, need to see the connection between action and consequence in order to learn or react appropriately.
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Cover and Move, Simple, Prioritize and Execute, and Decentralized Command.
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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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Remember: the enemy gets a vote.
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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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And the more you build your will by doing hard things, the stronger your will becomes.
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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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Trust is not blindly given. It must be built over time.
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Establishing an effective and repeatable planning process is critical to the success of any team.
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Generally, when a leader struggles, the root cause behind the problem is that the leader has leaned too far in one direction and steered off course. Awareness.
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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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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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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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The only meaningful measure for a leader is whether the team succeeds or fails.
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Motivation is fickle. It comes and goes.
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Don’t ask your leader what you should do, tell them what you are going to do.
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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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For this reason, they must believe in the cause for which they are fighting.
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Whether on the battlefield or in the business world, leaders must be comfortable accepting some level of risk.
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It’s not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate.
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leadership is the single greatest factor in any team’s performance.
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Don’t let your mind control you. Control your mind.
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Leadership requires finding the equilibrium in the dichotomy of many seemingly contradictory qualities, between one extreme and another.
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