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The focus must always be on how to best accomplish the mission.

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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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Leadership Quality
And the more you build your will by doing hard things, the stronger your will becomes.
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Strong Willing Yourself
Remember: the enemy gets a vote.
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Democracy Enemy Remember
All animals, including humans, need to see the connection between action and consequence in order to learn or react appropriately.
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Leadership is simple, but not easy.
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Easy Leadership Simplicity
A good leader has nothing to prove, but everything to prove.
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Deep Goodness Leadership
When it comes to standards, as a leader, it’s not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate.
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As a leader, it is up to you to explain the bigger picture to him—and to all your front line leaders. That is a critical component of leadership
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But, in fact, discipline is the pathway to freedom.
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Discipline Freedom
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
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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Faster. Stronger. Smarter. More humble. Less ego.
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There is no easy way.
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The test for a successful brief is simple: Do the team and the supporting elements understand it?
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The best leaders are not driven by ego or personal agendas.
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Leadership Virtue
Trust is not blindly given. It must be built over time.
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Time Trust

The focus must always be on how to best accomplish the mission.

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