All elements within the greater team are crucial and must work together to accomplish the mission, mutually supporting one another for that singular purpose.
JOCKO WILLINKThere is no one else to blame. The leader must acknowledge mistakes and admit failures, take ownership of them, and develop a plan to win.
More Jocko Willink Quotes
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Relax. Look around. Make a call.
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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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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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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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Most important of all, he believed winning was possible.
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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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In the business world, and in life, there are inherent complexities. It is critical to keep plans and communication simple.
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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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Faster. Stronger. Smarter. More humble. Less ego.
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The U.S. Navy SEAL Teams were at the forefront of this leadership transformation, emerging from the triumphs and tragedies of war with a crystallized understanding of what it takes to succeed in the most challenging environments that combat presents.
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Generally, when a leader struggles, the root cause behind the problem is that the leader has leaned too far in one direction and steered off course. Awareness.
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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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Don’t ask your leader what you should do, tell them what you are going to do.
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Remember: the enemy gets a vote.
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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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Don’t let your mind control you. Control your mind.
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Instead of letting the situation dictate our decisions, we must dictate the situation.
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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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There are no bad units, only bad officers. This captures the essence of what Extreme Ownership is all about.
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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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All animals, including humans, need to see the connection between action and consequence in order to learn or react appropriately.
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The best leaders are not driven by ego or personal agendas.
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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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Leadership is simple, but not easy.
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The leader must own everything in his or her world.
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And the more you build your will by doing hard things, the stronger your will becomes.
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