The focus must always be on how to best accomplish the mission.
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So how can a leader become great if they lack the natural characteristics necessary to lead? The answer is simple: a good leader builds a great team that counterbalances their weaknesses.
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The goal of leadership seems simple: to get people to do what they need to do to support the mission and the team.
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There is no growth in the comfort zone.
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Discipline equals freedom.
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Plans and orders must be communicated in a manner that is simple, clear, and concise. Everyone
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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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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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Most important of all, he believed winning was possible.
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The most fundamental and important truths at the heart of Extreme Ownership: there are no bad teams, only bad leaders.
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Trust is not blindly given. It must be built over time.
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Our egos don’t like to take blame.
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The best leaders are not driven by ego or personal agendas.
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Leadership is simple, but not easy.
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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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The Warrior Kid treats people with respect, doesn’t judge them.
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In the SEAL Teams, the bond of our brotherhood is our strongest weapon. If you take that away from us, we lose our most important quality as a team.
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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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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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Instead of letting the situation dictate our decisions, we must dictate the situation.
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People do not follow robots.
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But, in fact, discipline is the pathway to freedom.
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I can remember many times when my boat crew struggled. It was easy to make excuses for our team’s performance and why it wasn’t what it should have been. But I learned that good leaders don’t make excuses. Instead, they figure out a way to get it done and win.
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The leader must own everything in his or her world.
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But we can’t ever think we are too good to fail or that our enemies are not capable, deadly, and eager to exploit our weaknesses. We must never get complacent. This is where controlling the ego is most important.
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Leaders must accept total responsibility, own problems that inhibit performance, and develop solutions to those problems.
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Motivation is fickle. It comes and goes.
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