There is no growth in the comfort zone.
JOCKO WILLINKThe best leaders are not driven by ego or personal agendas.
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And the more you build your will by doing hard things, the stronger your will becomes.
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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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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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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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The most fundamental and important truths at the heart of Extreme Ownership: there are no bad teams, only bad leaders.
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But, in fact, discipline is the pathway to freedom.
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Don’t ask your leader what you should do, tell them what you are going to do.
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We learned that leadership requires belief in the mission and unyielding perseverance to achieve victory, particularly when doubters question whether victory is even possible.
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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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It’s not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate.
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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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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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Establishing an effective and repeatable planning process is critical to the success of any team.
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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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Extreme Ownership. Leaders must own everything in their world. There is no one else to blame.
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I had to take ownership of everything that went wrong. Despite the tremendous blow to my reputation and to my ego, it was the right thing to do—the only thing to do. I
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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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Leadership is simple, but not easy.
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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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Good leaders are rare; bad leaders are common.
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Remember: the enemy gets a vote.
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Such concepts are simple, but not easy,
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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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There is only hard work, late nights, early mornings, practice, rehearsal, repetition, study, sweat, blood, toil, frustration, and discipline.
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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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