Chapter 12 Flashcards
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What is paramount to ultimate success and victory from any leader and any team?
Discipline
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Although discipline demands control and asceticism, it actually results in_______.
Freedom
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Discipline was not only the most important quality for an individual but also for
A team
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What was the dichotomy in the strict discipline task unit Bruiser used?
Instead of making them more rigid and unable to improvise, this discipline actually made them more flexible, more adaptive, and more effective. Discipline is the pathway to freedom
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What is the dichotomy of leadership?
A leader must lead but also be ready to follow. Good leaders must welcome this, putting aside ego and personal agendas to ensure that the team has the greatest chance of accomplishing its strategic goals. A true leader is not intimidated when others step up and take charge.
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Why must a leader control emotions?
If not how can the expected control anything else. Leaders who lose their temper also lose respect.
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All confidence is contagious, a great attribute for a leader, overconfidence can lead to____.
Complacency, which is the ultimate set up for failure
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A leader is
Aggressive but not overbearing
Calm, in control of emotions, but not robotic
Confident, but not cocky
Brave, but not foolhardy
Competitive, but gracious losers
Attentive to details, but not obsessed by the them
Strong, but have endurance
Humble, but not passive
Quiet, but not silent
Close with subordinates, but not too close
Exercise Extreme Ownership, simultaneously employ Decentralized Command
Leader has nothing to prove, but everything to prove
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Business application
CO kept electrical division open due to loyalty to a friend despite the fact that division was losing money and put the whole company in jeopardy. His dichotomy being close with subordinates but not too close was out of whack. In the end he decided to shut down the division.
