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.
JOCKO WILLINKOnce 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.
More Jocko Willink Quotes
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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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Faster. Stronger. Smarter. More humble. Less ego.
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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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The only meaningful measure for a leader is whether the team succeeds or fails.
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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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Such concepts are simple, but not easy,
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The test for a successful brief is simple: Do the team and the supporting elements understand it?
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Good leaders don’t make excuses.
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When it comes to standards, as a leader, it’s not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate. When setting expectations, no matter what has been said or written, if substandard performance is accepted and no one is held accountable.
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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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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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leadership is the single greatest factor in any team’s performance.
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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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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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In the SEAL Teams, the bond of our brotherhood is our strongest weapon. If you take that away from us, we lose our most important quality as a team.
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Don’t ask your leader what you should do, tell them what you are going to do.
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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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Cover and Move, Simple, Prioritize and Execute, and Decentralized Command.
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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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Waiting for the 100 percent right and certain solution leads to delay, indecision, and an inability to execute.
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The best leaders are not driven by ego or personal agendas.
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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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The most fundamental and important truths at the heart of Extreme Ownership: there are no bad teams, only bad leaders.
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The leader must own everything in his or her world.
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Extreme Ownership. Leaders must own everything in their world. There is no one else to blame.
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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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