There is no one else to blame. The leader must acknowledge mistakes and admit failures, take ownership of them, and develop a plan to win.
JOCKO WILLINKIt’s not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate.
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The best leaders are not driven by ego or personal agendas.
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Don’t fight stress. Embrace it. Turn it on itself. Use it to make yourself sharper and more alert. Use it to make you think and learn and get better and smarter and more effective. Use the stress to make you a better you.
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Extreme Ownership. Leaders must own everything in their world. There is no one else to blame.
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The only meaningful measure for a leader is whether the team succeeds or fails.
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Establishing an effective and repeatable planning process is critical to the success of any team.
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Departments and groups within the team must break down silos, depend on each other and understand who depends on them.
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In order to convince and inspire others to follow and accomplish a mission, a leader must be a true believer in the mission.
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Stop researching every aspect of it and reading all about it and debating the pros and cons of it, Start doing it.
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Cover and Move, Simple, Prioritize and Execute, and Decentralized Command.
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The focus must always be on how to best accomplish the mission.
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There is no easy way.
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Leadership isn’t one person leading a team. It is a group of leaders working together, up and down the chain of command, to lead.
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Don’t try to plan for every contingency. Doing so will only overburden you and weigh you down so that you cannot quickly maneuver.
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If the plan is simple enough, everyone understands it, which means each person can rapidly adjust and modify what he or she is doing. If the plan is too complex, the team can’t make rapid adjustments to it, because there is no baseline understanding of it.
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Instead of letting the situation dictate our decisions, we must dictate the situation.
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Waiting for the 100 percent right and certain solution leads to delay, indecision, and an inability to execute.
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If mistakes happen, effective leaders don’t place blame on others. They take ownership of the mistakes, determine what went wrong, develop solutions to correct those mistakes and prevent them from happening again as they move forward.
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Don’t let your mind control you. Control your mind.
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A good leader does not get bogged down in the minutia of a tactical problem at the expense of strategic success.
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Although discipline demands control and asceticism, it actually results in freedom. When you have the discipline to get up early, you are rewarded with more free time.
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After all, there can be no leadership where there is no team.
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Staying ahead of the curve prevents a leader from being overwhelmed when pressure is applied and enables greater decisiveness.
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Remember to keep your ego in check. Don’t judge people.
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leadership is the single greatest factor in any team’s performance.
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A good leader has nothing to prove, but everything to prove.
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Remember: the enemy gets a vote.
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