Trust is not blindly given. It must be built over time.
JOCKO WILLINKMost important of all, he believed winning was possible.
More Jocko Willink Quotes
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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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Don’t try to plan for every contingency. Doing so will only overburden you and weigh you down so that you cannot quickly maneuver.
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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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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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It’s not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate.
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A mission statement tells your troops what you are doing.
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Waiting for the 100 percent right and certain solution leads to delay, indecision, and an inability to execute.
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The leader must own everything in his or her world.
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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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All animals, including humans, need to see the connection between action and consequence in order to learn or react appropriately.
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Staying ahead of the curve prevents a leader from being overwhelmed when pressure is applied and enables greater decisiveness.
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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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Decisively engaged?
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Extreme Ownership. Leaders must own everything in their world. There is no one else to blame.
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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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