Leadership is simple, but not easy.
JOCKO WILLINKA mission statement tells your troops what you are doing.
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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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Staying ahead of the curve prevents a leader from being overwhelmed when pressure is applied and enables greater decisiveness.
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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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Most important of all, he believed winning was possible.
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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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A leader must care about the troops, but at the same time the leader must complete the mission, and in doing so there will be risk and sometimes unavoidable consequences to the troops.
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Good leaders don’t make excuses.
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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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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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Discipline equals freedom.
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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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There is no easy way.
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When it comes to standards, as a leader, it’s not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate. When setting expectations, no matter what has been said or written, if substandard performance is accepted and no one is held accountable.
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Don’t expect to be motivated every day to get out there and make things happen. You won’t be. Don’t count on motivation. Count on Discipline.
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Such concepts are simple, but not easy,
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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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Repetitive exceptional performance became a habit.
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There are no bad units, only bad officers. This captures the essence of what Extreme Ownership is all about.
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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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That’s it. When things are going bad: Don’t get all bummed out, don’t get startled, don’t get frustrated. No. Just look at the issue and say: Good.
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Don’t let your mind control you. Control your mind.
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As a leader, it is up to you to explain the bigger picture to him—and to all your front line leaders. That is a critical component of leadership
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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 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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leadership is the single greatest factor in any team’s performance.
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Relax. Look around. Make a call.
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