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There are no bad units, only bad officers. This captures the essence of what Extreme Ownership is all about.

Jocko Willink

A leader must lead but also be ready to follow. Sometimes, another member of the team—perhaps a subordinate or direct report—might be in a better position to develop a plan, make a decision, or lead through a specific situation.
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Decision Development Leadership Team
In the business world, and in life, there are inherent complexities. It is critical to keep plans and communication simple.
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Business Life Simplicity World
The test for a successful brief is simple: Do the team and the supporting elements understand it?
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Success Team Understand
leadership is the single greatest factor in any team’s performance.
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Leadership Team
The U.S. Navy SEAL Teams were at the forefront of this leadership transformation, emerging from the triumphs and tragedies of war with a crystallized understanding of what it takes to succeed in the most challenging environments that combat presents.
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Challenge Leadership Present Success Team Tragedy Transformation Understand War Win
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
There is no easy way.
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Easy Hard Time Inspirational
Remember to keep your ego in check. Don’t judge people.
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Judgement People Remember Yourself
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
As a leader, you have to balance the dichotomy, to be resolute where it matters but never inflexible and uncompromising on matters of little importance to the overall good of the team and the strategic mission.
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Goodness Importance Leadership Team
We wrote this so that the leadership lessons can continue to impact teams beyond the battlefield in all leadership situations—any company, team, or organization in which a group of people strives to achieve a goal and accomplish a mission.
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Accomplishment Company Leadership Lesson People Team
The best leaders are not driven by ego or personal agendas.
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Leadership Virtue
That’s it. When things are going bad: Don’t get all bummed out, don’t get startled, don’t get frustrated. No. Just look at the issue and say: Good.
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Bad Goodness Issue
Cover and Move, Simple, Prioritize and Execute, and Decentralized Command.
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Act Simplicity
Most important of all, he believed winning was possible.
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Believe Himself Important Possible Win
And the more you build your will by doing hard things, the stronger your will becomes.
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Strong Willing Yourself
Trust is not blindly given. It must be built over time.
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Time Trust
Remember: the enemy gets a vote.
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Democracy Enemy Remember
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
Good leaders are rare; bad leaders are common.
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Bad Goodness Leadership
But, in fact, discipline is the pathway to freedom.
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Discipline Freedom
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
You have to BE VIGILANT. You have to be ON GUARD. You have to HOLD THE LINE on the seemingly insignificant little things— things that shouldn’t matter—but that do.
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Importance Worth Yourself
Don’t ask your leader what you should do, tell them what you are going to do.
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Future Leadership Yourself
Get after it.
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Inspirational One Liner
When it comes to standards, as a leader, it’s not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate.
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Leadership Philosophy Tolerance
Leadership is simple, but not easy.
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Easy Leadership Simplicity

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