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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Waiting for the 100 percent right and certain solution leads to delay, indecision, and an inability to execute.
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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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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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Staying ahead of the curve prevents a leader from being overwhelmed when pressure is applied and enables greater decisiveness.
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His realistic assessment, acknowledgment of failure, and ownership of the problem were key to developing a plan to improve performance and ultimately win.
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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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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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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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Good leaders don’t make excuses.
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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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The best leaders are not driven by ego or personal agendas.
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Cover and Move, Simple, Prioritize and Execute, and Decentralized Command.
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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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The most fundamental and important truths at the heart of Extreme Ownership: there are no bad teams, only bad leaders.
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Faster. Stronger. Smarter. More humble. Less ego.
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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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Discipline equals freedom.
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