Repetitive exceptional performance became a habit.
JOCKO WILLINKThe focus must always be on how to best accomplish the mission.
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Although discipline demands control and asceticism, it actually results in freedom. When you have the discipline to get up early, you are rewarded with more free time.
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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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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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Leadership is simple, but not easy.
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Departments and groups within the team must break down silos, depend on each other and understand who depends on them.
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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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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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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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After all, there can be no leadership where there is no team.
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Good leaders are rare; bad leaders are common.
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It’s not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate.
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The leader must own everything in his or her world.
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More than a decade of continuous war and tough combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan gave birth to a new generation of leaders in the ranks of America’s fighting forces.
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Take care of your gear and your gear will take care of you.
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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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