There is only hard work, late nights, early mornings, practice, rehearsal, repetition, study, sweat, blood, toil, frustration, and discipline.
JOCKO WILLINKWe wrote this so that the leadership lessons can continue to impact teams beyond the battlefield in all leadership situations—any company, team, or organization in which a group of people strives to achieve a goal and accomplish a mission.
More Jocko Willink Quotes
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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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Don’t let your mind control you. Control your mind.
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Establishing an effective and repeatable planning process is critical to the success of any team.
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Take care of your gear and your gear will take care of you.
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Leaders must accept total responsibility, own problems that inhibit performance, and develop solutions to those problems.
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Plans and orders must be communicated in a manner that is simple, clear, and concise. Everyone
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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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Calm but not robotic, logical but not devoid of emotions.
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Relax. Look around. Make a call.
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But, in fact, discipline is the pathway to freedom.
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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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A mission statement tells your troops what you are doing.
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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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Remember to keep your ego in check. Don’t judge people.
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The best leaders are not driven by ego or personal agendas.
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Remember: the enemy gets a vote.
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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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Decisively engaged?
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The U.S. Navy SEAL Teams were at the forefront of this leadership transformation, emerging from the triumphs and tragedies of war with a crystallized understanding of what it takes to succeed in the most challenging environments that combat presents.
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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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When it comes to standards, as a leader, it’s not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate.
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The Warrior Kid treats people with respect, doesn’t judge them.
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There is no growth in the comfort zone.
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The test for a successful brief is simple: Do the team and the supporting elements understand it?
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The focus must always be on how to best accomplish the mission.
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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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