All animals, including humans, need to see the connection between action and consequence in order to learn or react appropriately.
JOCKO WILLINKA 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.
More Jocko Willink Quotes
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That’s it. When things are going bad: Don’t get all bummed out, don’t get startled, don’t get frustrated. No. Just look at the issue and say: Good.
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Departments and groups within the team must break down silos, depend on each other and understand who depends on them.
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The leader must own everything in his or her world.
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But we can’t ever think we are too good to fail or that our enemies are not capable, deadly, and eager to exploit our weaknesses. We must never get complacent. This is where controlling the ego is most important.
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Instead of letting the situation dictate our decisions, we must dictate the situation.
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In the business world, and in life, there are inherent complexities. It is critical to keep plans and communication simple.
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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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Whether on the battlefield or in the business world, leaders must be comfortable accepting some level of risk.
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I can remember many times when my boat crew struggled. It was easy to make excuses for our team’s performance and why it wasn’t what it should have been. But I learned that good leaders don’t make excuses. Instead, they figure out a way to get it done and win.
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Most important of all, he believed winning was possible.
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The best leaders are not driven by ego or personal agendas.
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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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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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More than a decade of continuous war and tough combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan gave birth to a new generation of leaders in the ranks of America’s fighting forces.
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Establishing an effective and repeatable planning process is critical to the success of any team.
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Our egos don’t like to take blame.
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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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Cover and Move, Simple, Prioritize and Execute, and Decentralized Command.
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Good leaders don’t make excuses.
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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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Leadership requires finding the equilibrium in the dichotomy of many seemingly contradictory qualities, between one extreme and another.
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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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The only meaningful measure for a leader is whether the team succeeds or fails.
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Plans and orders must be communicated in a manner that is simple, clear, and concise. Everyone
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Good leaders are rare; bad leaders are common.
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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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