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Don’t let your mind control you. Control your mind.

Jocko Willink

The only meaningful measure for a leader is whether the team succeeds or fails.
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Failure Success Team
A good leader does not get bogged down in the minutia of a tactical problem at the expense of strategic success.
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Goodness Leadership Problem Success
A good leader has nothing to prove, but everything to prove.
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Deep Goodness Leadership
After all, there can be no leadership where there is no team.
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Leadership Team
People do not follow robots.
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People Technology
Don’t try to plan for every contingency. Doing so will only overburden you and weigh you down so that you cannot quickly maneuver.
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Quick Try Willing Yourself
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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Explanation Leadership Photograpgh
Good leaders are rare; bad leaders are common.
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Bad Goodness Leadership
There is only hard work, late nights, early mornings, practice, rehearsal, repetition, study, sweat, blood, toil, frustration, and discipline.
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Discipline Inspirational Morning Night Practice Success
Extreme Ownership. Leaders must own everything in their world. There is no one else to blame.
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Blame Leadership World
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
There are no bad units, only bad officers. This captures the essence of what Extreme Ownership is all about.
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Bad Control Politics
The focus must always be on how to best accomplish the mission.
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Accomplishment Best Focus
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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Control Enemy Failure Goodness Important Thinking
Repetitive exceptional performance became a habit.
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Performance
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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Myself Reputation Responsibility Right Time

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