All animals, including humans, need to see the connection between action and consequence in order to learn or react appropriately.
JOCKO WILLINKLeadership 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 is the single greatest factor in any team’s performance.
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Our egos don’t like to take blame.
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Plans and orders must be communicated in a manner that is simple, clear, and concise. Everyone
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But, in fact, discipline is the pathway to freedom.
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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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Good leaders are rare; bad leaders are common.
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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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Relax. Look around. Make a call.
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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.
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Most important of all, he believed winning was possible.
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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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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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Cover and Move, Simple, Prioritize and Execute, and Decentralized Command.
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Once people stop making excuses, stop blaming others, and take ownership of everything in their lives, they are compelled to take action to solve their problems.
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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 leader must own everything in his or her world.
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People do not follow robots.
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Decisively engaged?
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Instead of letting the situation dictate our decisions, we must dictate the situation.
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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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There are no bad units, only bad officers. This captures the essence of what Extreme Ownership is all about.
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Faster. Stronger. Smarter. More humble. Less ego.
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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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We 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.
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Even the most competent of leaders can be overwhelmed if they try to tackle multiple problems or a number of tasks simultaneously.
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The only meaningful measure for a leader is whether the team succeeds or fails.
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