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Marine Corps Leadership Principles

• Know yourself and seek self-improvement.
• Be technically and tactically proficient.
• Develop a sense of responsibility among your subordinates.
• Make sound and timely decisions.
• Set the example.
• Know your Marines and look out for their welfare.
• Keep your Marines informed.
• Seek responsibility and take responsibility for your actions.
• Ensure assigned tasks are understood, supervised, and accomplished.
• Train your Marines as a team.
• Employ your command in accordance with its capabilities.

Marine Corps Leadership Traits

• Dependability: The certainty of proper performance of duty.
• Bearing: Creating a favorable impression in carriage, appearance and personal conduct at all times.
• Courage: The mental quality that recognizes fear of danger or criticism, but enables a man to proceed in the face of it with calmness and firmness.
• Decisiveness: Ability to make decisions promptly and to announce them in clear, forceful manner.
• Endurance: The mental and physical stamina measured by the ability to withstand pain, fatigue, stress and hardship.
• Enthusiasm: The display of sincere interest and exuberance in the performance of duty.
• Initiative: Taking action in the absence of orders.
• Integrity: Uprightness of character and soundness of moral principles; includes the qualities of truthfulness and honesty.
• Judgment: The ability to weigh facts and possible solutions on which to base sound decisions.
• Justice: Giving reward and punishment according to merits of the case in question. The ability to administer a system of rewards and punishments impartially and consistently.
• Knowledge: Understanding of a science or an art. The range of one's information, including professional knowledge and an understanding of your Marines.
• Tact: The ability to deal with others without creating offense.
• Unselfishness: Avoidance of providing for one's own comfort and personal advancement at the expense of others.
• Loyalty: The quality of faithfulness to country, the Corps, the unit, to one's seniors, subordinates and peers.
  

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