Get after it.
JOCKO WILLINKLeadership 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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Discipline equals freedom.
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Motivation is fickle. It comes and goes.
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Leadership is simple, but not easy.
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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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When it comes to standards, as a leader, it’s not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate. When setting expectations, no matter what has been said or written, if substandard performance is accepted and no one is held accountable.
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Extreme Ownership. Leaders must own everything in their world. There is no one else to blame.
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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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People do not follow robots.
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Don’t expect to be motivated every day to get out there and make things happen. You won’t be. Don’t count on motivation. Count on Discipline.
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So how can a leader become great if they lack the natural characteristics necessary to lead? The answer is simple: a good leader builds a great team that counterbalances their weaknesses.
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The leader must own everything in his or her world.
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Establishing an effective and repeatable planning process is critical to the success of any team.
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There is no easy way.
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Instead of letting the situation dictate our decisions, we must dictate the situation.
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It’s not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate.
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Our egos don’t like to take blame.
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The goal of leadership seems simple: to get people to do what they need to do to support the mission and the team.
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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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Stop researching every aspect of it and reading all about it and debating the pros and cons of it, Start doing it.
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The focus must always be on how to best accomplish the mission.
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There is no growth in the comfort zone.
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When it comes to standards, as a leader, it’s not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate.
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And the more you build your will by doing hard things, the stronger your will becomes.
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Good leaders are rare; bad leaders are common.
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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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If we could execute with a monumental effort just to reach an immediate goal that everyone could see, we could then continue to the next visually.
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