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Extreme Ownership. Leaders must own everything in their world. There is no one else to blame.

Jocko Willink

Staying ahead of the curve prevents a leader from being overwhelmed when pressure is applied and enables greater decisiveness.
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Decision Force Greatness Leadership Stay
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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Care Leadership Risk Time
So how can a leader become great if they lack the natural characteristics necessary to lead? The answer is simple: a good leader builds a great team that counterbalances their weaknesses.
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Greatness Leadership Necessary Simplicity Team Weakness
To not move around, observe, and analyze, in order to make the best decisions possible, was to fail as a leader and fail the team.
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Best Decision Failure Leadership Possible Team
Leadership is simple, but not easy.
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Easy Leadership Simplicity
Remember to keep your ego in check. Don’t judge people.
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Judgement People Remember Yourself
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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Accomplishment Greatness Support Team Togetherness
A good leader has nothing to prove, but everything to prove.
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Deep Goodness Leadership
Good leaders are rare; bad leaders are common.
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Bad Goodness Leadership
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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Planning Simplicity Team Understand
leadership is the single greatest factor in any team’s performance.
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Leadership Team
Leadership 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 Person Team Togetherness
After all, there can be no leadership where there is no team.
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Leadership Team
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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Friendship Goal Simplicity Support Team
Good leaders don’t make excuses.
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Goodness Leadership One Liner
Instead of letting the situation dictate our decisions, we must dictate the situation.
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Control Decision Ourselves

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