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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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Development Leadership Mistake Wrong
Extreme Ownership. Leaders must own everything in their world. There is no one else to blame.
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Blame Leadership World
Plans and orders must be communicated in a manner that is simple, clear, and concise. Everyone
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Planning Simplicity
Don’t ask your leader what you should do, tell them what you are going to do.
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Future Leadership Yourself
The most fundamental and important truths at the heart of Extreme Ownership: there are no bad teams, only bad leaders.
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Bad Fundamental Heart Important Leadership Team Truth
The Warrior Kid treats people with respect, doesn’t judge them.
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Judgement People Respect Warrior
Departments and groups within the team must break down silos, depend on each other and understand who depends on them.
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Break Independent Team Understand
The best leaders are not driven by ego or personal agendas.
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Leadership Virtue
Our freedom to operate and maneuver had increased substantially through disciplined procedures. Discipline equals freedom.
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Discipline Equality Freedom Ourselves
As a leader, you have to balance the dichotomy, to be resolute where it matters but never inflexible and uncompromising on matters of little importance to the overall good of the team and the strategic mission.
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Goodness Importance Leadership Team
The most impressive thing about this improvement in performance was that it did not come from a major process change or an advance in technology. Instead, it came through a leadership principle that has been around for ages: Simple.
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Age Change Improvement Leadership Simplicity Technology
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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Greatness Leadership Team
But, in fact, discipline is the pathway to freedom.
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Discipline Freedom
Decisively engaged?
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Decision Marriage
There is no growth in the comfort zone.
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Comfortable Growth One Liner
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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Born Fight Force Leadership Tough War

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