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Churchill's unwavering leadership during WWII, the critical importance of maintaining morale, and learning from weaknesses through deliberate self-assessment
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He understands the danger. Again, humans are very complex, in many ways, irrational creatures. And the fact is he understood that there very few enemies that are more dangerous for yourself and your team and whatever you trying to do than poor morale Nothing must now be said which would disturb morale or lead people to think that we should not
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