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Calm but not robotic, logical but not devoid of emotions.

Jocko Willink

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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Friendship Goal Simplicity Support Team
There are no bad units, only bad officers. This captures the essence of what Extreme Ownership is all about.
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Bad Control Politics
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
Relax. Look around. Make a call.
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Action Breathe Inspirational See
Once people stop making excuses, stop blaming others, and take ownership of everything in their lives, they are compelled to take action to solve their problems.
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Action Blame Live People Problem
Most important of all, he believed winning was possible.
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Believe Himself Important Possible Win
Faster. Stronger. Smarter. More humble. Less ego.
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Humble Instagram Captions Strong
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
A leader must care about the troops, but at the same time the leader must complete the mission, and in doing so there will be risk and sometimes unavoidable consequences to the troops.
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Care Leadership Risk Time
Remember to keep your ego in check. Don’t judge people.
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Judgement People Remember Yourself
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 we can’t ever think we are too good to fail or that our enemies are not capable, deadly, and eager to exploit our weaknesses. We must never get complacent. This is where controlling the ego is most important.
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Control Enemy Failure Goodness Important Thinking
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
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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Reading Start
Decisively engaged?
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Decision Marriage
Whether on the battlefield or in the business world, leaders must be comfortable accepting some level of risk.
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Business Comfortable Leadership Risk Understand War World
Leaders must always operate with the understanding that they are part of something greater than themselves and their own personal interests.
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Greatness Leadership Understand
Leadership requires finding the equilibrium in the dichotomy of many seemingly contradictory qualities, between one extreme and another.
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Leadership Quality
Instead of letting the situation dictate our decisions, we must dictate the situation.
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Control Decision Ourselves
Such concepts are simple, but not easy,
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Easy Simplicity
leadership is the single greatest factor in any team’s performance.
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Leadership Team
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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Discipline Expectation Motivational
The Warrior Kid treats people with respect, doesn’t judge them.
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Judgement People Respect Warrior
To not move around, observe, and analyze, in order to make the best decisions possible, was to fail as a leader and fail the team.
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Best Decision Failure Leadership Possible Team
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
The test for a successful brief is simple: Do the team and the supporting elements understand it?
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Success Team Understand
The focus must always be on how to best accomplish the mission.
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Accomplishment Best Focus

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