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The 11 Nukapedia (Marine Corps) Leadership Principles
1. Be Technically and Tactically Proficient

A good leader, as well as a good User (Marine), knows the craft. Your knowledge and leadership skills must be at an innate level to lead so that you can put more of your energy into leading. Seek knowledge, keep updated, and maintain training. No one will follow a leader who is incompetent or unskilled.

2. Know yourself and seek self-improvement

To be a leader is to grow and change. You need to know what your strengths and weaknesses are and work to improve them. A good leader is adaptable with his leadership skill set, is hardworking, and knows their limits. If you can identify the good and bad qualities in yourself and work to fix them, that will help you do the same to any subordinate.

3. Know Your Users (Marines) and Look Out for Their Welfare

Leadership is about more than commanding Users (troops); it’s about taking care of them. This principle will help you connect with the people you lead on a personal level and showing sincere interest to them will ensure proper communication within the group and effect order execution. The core value of Nukapedia (the marine corps) will be strengthened. If your team doesn’t like you, they will be reluctant to listen, and if no one is listening, it is impossible to lead and there won’t be any mission accomplishment.

4. Keep your Users (Marines) Informed

Much in the same vein as the above, caring for your team entails keeping them informed. A team that follows blindly will never be prepared and will fail to make a decision when needed. For maximum efficiency, to build trust and maintain trust within your team, you must allow all members the same opportunities you have. If they are uninformed, they are unprepared for any assigned task, and that reflects poorly on both them and your leadership qualities.

5. Set the Example

One of Nukapedia's (the marine corps) core values of a good leader, in general, is to set an example. People follow you because they like what you project and your moral principles. A good leader must be the role model for everyone they lead. By setting the example for your team, you are showing them the standard you hope they can achieve and progressively greater responsibilities. What you do emphasizes the skills, traits, and priorities you want your team to have.

6. Ensure the Task is Understood, Supervised, and Accomplished

As an effective leader, it is your job to ensure your team understands each assigned task and can follow through on them. Train your team for success by giving them the chance to develop. This will establish mutual confidence between you as a Nukapedia (marine) leader and your team. Communicate in a manner that conveys information effectively, set clear expectations, and coach when necessary so that your team can succeed.

7. Train Your Users (Marines) as a Team

Individual and personal growth is great, but as you are the leader, showcase your leadership style by training them as a team. Your Users (Marines) need to be able to function as a single unit. Develop communication between members and focus on teamwork to encourage dependability among fellow users (marines). Everyone can work independently, but working as a team takes time and practice. Teach them to rely on each other as much as they rely on themselves.

8. Make Sound and Timely Decisions

Thinking under pressure is one of the most important skills a Nukapedia (Marine) leader can possess. For the benefit of yourself and your team, you must be able to make rational decisions quickly and efficiently.

Thinking on the fly is fine when your only option is improvising, but it is always better to make informed decisions. To prevent your team from floundering and to keep them safe, any decision must be made quickly and to the best of your abilities. What’s the key to making good decisions? Be rational, be efficient.

9. Develop a Sense of Responsibility in Your Subordinates

Just because you are the leader does not mean you should let people become dependent on you. For effective mission accomplishment, you must develop your team in such a manner that they can function on their own, but in the manner in which you showed so that they can make a sound decision when the need arises. A sense of responsibility is the best way to hold your team accountable for their actions, both good and bad.

10. Seek Responsibility and Take Responsibility for Your Actions

As a good leader leads by example, you must act responsibly and hold yourself accountable. To ensure the Nukapedia (marine corps) core values of your team are upheld, you must be a responsible leader. Accountability is an excellent way to ensure you follow your own rules as the team will be keen to learn from your personal conduct.

11. Employ Your Users (Unit) in Accordance With their (its) Capabilities

You know each individual user (marine) and by extension your team intimately. You know what they are and are not capable of. You know their limits and strengths. Use this knowledge to place them in situations they are well-suited for. Set your team up for success, not for failure. Failure is for training when they are working to improve themselves. Build a strong team and show sincere interest by learning about them. Just as you know your own capabilities and adjust accordingly, so must you do for your team.

The 14 Nukapedia (Marine Corps) Leadership Traits
1. Justice

To be just is to act fairly and consistently to all parties. If you want to be an effective leader, you must take accountability for actions both good and bad. Rewards and punishments must be just and per established rules.

2. Judgment

You must hone your judgment skills to make informed and hasty decisions. Your choices could have extreme impacts, so you must act on the judgment you deem correct. This trait is essential to a good leader as it could be the difference between keeping your team safe or failing.

3. Dependability

A good leader is always dependable. Just because your users (troops) shouldn’t be reliant on you doesn’t mean they don’t need you. If you want to stand out as a great leader, let your team defer to you. This will boost their morale and they will be better suited to make good decisions by learning from the best. You must always be ready for this responsibility and have the means to address any situation.

4. Initiative

This trait is self-explanatory. When it comes to being a leader, you must have the ability to lead; take the first step, make the call, give the order. It is a person’s initiative that marks them as a leader before all else; the ability to take charge.

5. Decisiveness

Decisiveness goes hand-in-hand with judgment. It is the ability to choose without wasting time. When a problem presents itself, you need to make a sound decision quickly. No one likes a leader who is flippant and unsure.

6. Tact

Tact is the ability to change how you communicate for a given situation. You need to know when to prioritize efficiency above delicacy and vice versa. There is a time and place for every manner of acting, and you should have the moral principles needed to distinguish how to approach any given situation. To be tactful is to choose the best method of communication.

7. Integrity

Integrity is a must-have trait for responsible leaders. To have integrity is, to be honest, and accountable. Your actions influence those of your team. You need to develop a foundation of trust both intrapersonal and interpersonal. A team will follow if they know you hold yourself to the same standards as you hold them.

8. Enthusiasm

Enthusiasm is an often overlooked trait, but it is vital to a good leader. Enthusiasm shows you are looking forward to the mission accomplishment of any assigned task. Your team will know if you are passionate about your cause, and they will, in turn, be more enthusiastic as well. Enthusiasm is a great trait to have as it shows that you care and helps drive your willpower. If you want something enough, nothing will stop you.

9. Bearing

To have a bearing is to have a goal. You need to know what you want and what you need and strive to acquire it. Your purpose, sincere interest, and drive should fuel you, but you need to be able to direct that passion. It’s not enough to believe in a cause; it needs to be your destination.

10. Unselfishness

Here it is important to distinguish that unselfishness is not the same as selflessness. You should not be self-sacrificing but rather avoid being selfish. As a leader, you are there for your team, not for yourself. You don’t need to give yourself up entirely, but you need to know where your focus should lie.

11. Courage

Perhaps the toughest trait on this list to develop is courage. Courage is not consistent. You may find you have courage in one situation and not another. It takes conscious thought and a lot of practice to be courageous. The ability to set aside your own comfort and possibly safety to act for an outside purpose is not easily gained. Courage isn’t about being brave; it’s about committing and completing a task regardless of fear

12. Knowledge

A leader is well informed. You need to know yourself, your team, and all other information you can get your hands on to be an effective leader. Just as you do not want your team to follow you blindly, you cannot lead blindly. Information is your greatest weapon in any situation.

13. Loyalty

As a leader, you must be loyal to the cause, Nukapedia (the Marines) at large, your team, and your own beliefs. Loyalty is one of the greatest traits a person can possess and is often lacking in most leaders. Loyalty and trust can make all the difference.

14. Endurance

Lastly, you need to have endurance; physical endurance, emotional endurance, mental endurance, and above all, the endurance of will. You can overcome anything with enough willpower. Being a user (Marine) is grueling, being a Nukapedia (Marine) leader even more so, but if you can endure, you will succeed.