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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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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
Calm but not robotic, logical but not devoid of emotions.
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Emotional Logic Technology
But, in fact, discipline is the pathway to freedom.
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Discipline Freedom
Instead of letting the situation dictate our decisions, we must dictate the situation.
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Control Decision Ourselves
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
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
Discipline equals freedom.
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Discipline Equality Freedom One Liner
Repetitive exceptional performance became a habit.
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Performance
The leader must own everything in his or her world.
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Himself Leadership World
Don’t ask your leader what you should do, tell them what you are going to do.
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Future Leadership Yourself
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
We learned that leadership requires belief in the mission and unyielding perseverance to achieve victory, particularly when doubters question whether victory is even possible.
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Achievement Belief Leadership Learning Perseverance Possible Victory
After all, there can be no leadership where there is no team.
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Leadership Team
All animals, including humans, need to see the connection between action and consequence in order to learn or react appropriately.
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Action Animal Connection Human Learning
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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Control Discipline Freedom Result Time
And the more you build your will by doing hard things, the stronger your will becomes.
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Strong Willing 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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