For leaders, the humility to admit and own mistakes and develop a plan to overcome them is essential to success. The best leaders are not driven by ego or personal agendas. They are simply focused on the mission and how best to accomplish it.
JOCKO WILLINKInstead of letting the situation dictate our decisions, we must dictate the situation.
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Is this what I want to be? This? Is this all I’ve got—is this everything I can give? Is this going to be my life? Do I accept that?
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As a leader, you have to balance the dichotomy, to be resolute where it matters but never inflexible and uncompromising on matters of little importance to the overall good of the team and the strategic mission.
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Leadership is simple, but not easy.
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Trust is not blindly given. It must be built over time.
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His realistic assessment, acknowledgment of failure, and ownership of the problem were key to developing a plan to improve performance and ultimately win.
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Generally, when a leader struggles, the root cause behind the problem is that the leader has leaned too far in one direction and steered off course. Awareness.
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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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Plans and orders must be communicated in a manner that is simple, clear, and concise. Everyone
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The best leaders are not driven by ego or personal agendas.
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A good leader has nothing to prove, but everything to prove.
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Remember to keep your ego in check. Don’t judge people.
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More than a decade of continuous war and tough combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan gave birth to a new generation of leaders in the ranks of America’s fighting forces.
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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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Motivation is fickle. It comes and goes.
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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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Whether on the battlefield or in the business world, leaders must be comfortable accepting some level of risk.
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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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Leadership requires finding the equilibrium in the dichotomy of many seemingly contradictory qualities, between one extreme and another.
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Repetitive exceptional performance became a habit.
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All animals, including humans, need to see the connection between action and consequence in order to learn or react appropriately.
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It’s not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate.
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Remember: the enemy gets a vote.
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The greatest of these was the recognition that leadership is the most important factor on the battlefield, the single greatest reason behind the success of any team.
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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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The most fundamental and important truths at the heart of Extreme Ownership: there are no bad teams, only bad leaders.
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Extreme Ownership. Leaders must own everything in their world. There is no one else to blame.
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