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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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The best leaders are not driven by ego or personal agendas.
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Leadership Virtue
If we could execute with a monumental effort just to reach an immediate goal that everyone could see, we could then continue to the next visually.
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Effort Goal See
Leaders must always operate with the understanding that they are part of something greater than themselves and their own personal interests.
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Greatness Leadership Understand
A good leader has nothing to prove, but everything to prove.
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Deep Goodness Leadership
Most important of all, he believed winning was possible.
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Believe Himself Important Possible Win
Remember to keep your ego in check. Don’t judge people.
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Judgement People Remember Yourself
It’s not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate.
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Deep Tolerance Yourself
The focus must always be on how to best accomplish the mission.
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Accomplishment Best Focus
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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Reading Start
Remember: the enemy gets a vote.
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Democracy Enemy Remember
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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Fight Learning Thinking
You have to BE VIGILANT. You have to be ON GUARD. You have to HOLD THE LINE on the seemingly insignificant little things— things that shouldn’t matter—but that do.
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Importance Worth Yourself
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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Blame Development Failure Leadership Mistake Oneself Win
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.
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Accomplishment Development Focus Humility Leadership Mistake Simplicity
People do not follow robots.
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People Technology
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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Goodness Importance Leadership Team

The most fundamental and important truths at the heart of Extreme Ownership: there are no bad teams, only bad leaders.

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