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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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Our egos don’t like to take blame.
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Blame Ourselves
Calm but not robotic, logical but not devoid of emotions.
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Emotional Logic Technology
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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Accomplishment Development Focus Humility Leadership Mistake Simplicity
Motivation is fickle. It comes and goes.
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Motivational One Liner
The focus must always be on how to best accomplish the mission.
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Accomplishment Best Focus
Don’t let your mind control you. Control your mind.
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Control Inspirational Mindset Yourself
Good leaders don’t make excuses.
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Goodness Leadership One Liner
Instead of letting the situation dictate our decisions, we must dictate the situation.
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Control Decision Ourselves
And the more you build your will by doing hard things, the stronger your will becomes.
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Strong Willing Yourself
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
The test for a successful brief is simple: Do the team and the supporting elements understand it?
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Success Team Understand
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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Goodness Leadership Learning Myself Remember Struggle Time Win
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
But, in fact, discipline is the pathway to freedom.
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Discipline Freedom
Even the most competent of leaders can be overwhelmed if they try to tackle multiple problems or a number of tasks simultaneously.
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Leadership Problem Try
leadership is the single greatest factor in any team’s performance.
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Leadership Team

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