And the more you build your will by doing hard things, the stronger your will becomes.
JOCKO WILLINKGood leaders don’t make excuses.
More Jocko Willink Quotes
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The focus must always be on how to best accomplish the mission.
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All elements within the greater team are crucial and must work together to accomplish the mission, mutually supporting one another for that singular purpose.
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A mission statement tells your troops what you are doing.
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Motivation is fickle. It comes and goes.
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The only meaningful measure for a leader is whether the team succeeds or fails.
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But, in fact, discipline is the pathway to freedom.
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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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A good leader has nothing to prove, but everything to prove.
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There is no easy way.
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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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If mistakes happen, effective leaders don’t place blame on others. They take ownership of the mistakes, determine what went wrong, develop solutions to correct those mistakes and prevent them from happening again as they move forward.
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The most impressive thing about this improvement in performance was that it did not come from a major process change or an advance in technology. Instead, it came through a leadership principle that has been around for ages: Simple.
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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, 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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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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All animals, including humans, need to see the connection between action and consequence in order to learn or react appropriately.
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Is this what I want to be? This? Is this all I’ve got—is this everything I can give? Is this going to be my life? Do I accept that?
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Extreme Ownership. Leaders must own everything in their world. There is no one else to blame.
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There is no growth in the comfort zone.
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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 test for a successful brief is simple: Do the team and the supporting elements understand it?
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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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Leadership requires finding the equilibrium in the dichotomy of many seemingly contradictory qualities, between one extreme and another.
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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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When it comes to standards, as a leader, it’s not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate.
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