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The most fundamental and important truths at the heart of Extreme Ownership: there are no bad teams, only bad leaders.

Jocko Willink

Leadership is simple, but not easy.
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Easy Leadership Simplicity
Cover and Move, Simple, Prioritize and Execute, and Decentralized Command.
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Act Simplicity
There is only hard work, late nights, early mornings, practice, rehearsal, repetition, study, sweat, blood, toil, frustration, and discipline.
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Discipline Inspirational Morning Night Practice Success
Don’t ask your leader what you should do, tell them what you are going to do.
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Future Leadership Yourself
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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Fight Learning Thinking
Leaders must accept total responsibility, own problems that inhibit performance, and develop solutions to those problems.
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Acceptance Development Leadership Problem Responsibility
The focus must always be on how to best accomplish the mission.
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Accomplishment Best Focus
Waiting for the 100 percent right and certain solution leads to delay, indecision, and an inability to execute.
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Ability Action Decision Right Wait
Staying ahead of the curve prevents a leader from being overwhelmed when pressure is applied and enables greater decisiveness.
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Decision Force Greatness Leadership Stay
Instead of letting the situation dictate our decisions, we must dictate the situation.
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Control Decision Ourselves
Remember to keep your ego in check. Don’t judge people.
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Judgement People Remember Yourself
The leader must own everything in his or her world.
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Himself Leadership World
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
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
If the plan is simple enough, everyone understands it, which means each person can rapidly adjust and modify what he or she is doing. If the plan is too complex, the team can’t make rapid adjustments to it, because there is no baseline understanding of it.
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Planning Simplicity Team Understand
Relax. Look around. Make a call.
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