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Great leadership seems easy when things are good and everybody'shappy. When times grow tough, however, a leader's true colors arerevealed. Do you know what to do as a leader when you're suddenlyunder fire? Here's a guide from someone who led in a real firefight.

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1. Control your fear.Courage doesn't mean the absence of fear. It also doesn't meancharging ahead blindly in the face of adversity. It does mean you can'tallow your fear to become contagious. Your team needs to believe

you're in control of yourself, if they're to have confidence that you canmake smart decisions in tough times.

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You owe a lot to your team for giving you the privilege ofplacing their trust in you. First on the list, you owe them a goalworth dedicating their efforts to, and you need to demonstrate

that you're willing to do whatever it takes to achieve it.

2. Remember that the mission comes first.

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3. Remember that the mission comes before you, too.In combat, this means being willing to risk your own safety for othersin the unit and the mission. In other contexts, it means demonstratingthat you'll sacrifice your personal short-term interests for the team's

goal. Otherwise, how can you ask them to do so?

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4. Rely on your preparation.While training alone will never quite prepare you to lead in reallife, it's as close as you can get to the real thing. Think ahead oftime about how you'll react to tough situations, so you can free

your mind in crucial moments to react and adapt quickly.

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5. Be tough, but human."To those who have been in combat, they live by hardness, intuition, andcompassion." Great leaders can also be found moments of humanity andeven humor in the heat of combat. Your team needs to know that you'retough, but also that you're reacting to the world around you like anengaged leader, not a machine.

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6. Encourage your people.Great leader treats their team as if they were all special. The nextday after any [casualty], he would remind them that each of themhad already sacrificed themselves for each other on a daily basis--

and how, if required, he would sacrifice himself for any of them.

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7. Communicate effectively.It's important to make communicating what's going on a priority aswell. Your team and all of your stakeholders need to know what's goingon, or they can't contribute. When technology fails, you need to havebackup ways of getting and giving information.

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8. Use your resources wisely. But use them.Great leaders make full use of everything they have. At the endof the working week, they will reflect on how they use theresources and update the status to their team continually. They

will guide all of them to utilize the resources at maximum.

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9. Imitate the leaders who inspire you.When his team players' eyes are on him, great leader thinks back tothe lessons he had learned, and some of the other leaders he hasknown and respected. Regardless of where you work, always continue

to learn what makes leaders successful and what makes them fail.

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“Leadership is action, not position.” – Donald H. McGannon

Thank You Very MuchSompong Yusoontorn