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Leaders must accept total responsibility, own problems that inhibit performance, and develop solutions to those problems.

Jocko Willink

Our freedom to operate and maneuver had increased substantially through disciplined procedures. Discipline equals freedom.
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Discipline Equality Freedom Ourselves
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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Important Lose Quality Relationship Strong Team Weapon
leadership is the single greatest factor in any team’s performance.
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Leadership 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
We learned that leadership requires belief in the mission and unyielding perseverance to achieve victory, particularly when doubters question whether victory is even possible.
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Achievement Belief Leadership Learning Perseverance Possible Victory
There is no growth in the comfort zone.
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Comfortable Growth One Liner
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
The infamous they.
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Famous One Liner
Remember: the enemy gets a vote.
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Democracy Enemy Remember
After all, there can be no leadership where there is no team.
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Leadership 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
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
Good leaders don’t make excuses.
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Goodness Leadership One Liner
Discipline equals freedom.
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Discipline Equality Freedom One Liner
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
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

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