Calm but not robotic, logical but not devoid of emotions.
JOCKO WILLINKIt’s not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate.
More Jocko Willink Quotes
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Leadership is simple, but not easy.
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Good leaders don’t make excuses.
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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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Leadership requires finding the equilibrium in the dichotomy of many seemingly contradictory qualities, between one extreme and another.
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Leaders must accept total responsibility, own problems that inhibit performance, and develop solutions to those problems.
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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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Our egos don’t like to take blame.
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There is no growth in the comfort zone.
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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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The most fundamental and important truths at the heart of Extreme Ownership: there are no bad teams, only bad leaders.
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Discipline equals freedom.
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There is no easy way.
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We wrote this so that the leadership lessons can continue to impact teams beyond the battlefield in all leadership situations—any company, team, or organization in which a group of people strives to achieve a goal and accomplish a mission.
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Decisively engaged?
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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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