Don’t try to plan for every contingency. Doing so will only overburden you and weigh you down so that you cannot quickly maneuver.
JOCKO WILLINKWhen it comes to standards, as a leader, it’s not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate.
More Jocko Willink Quotes
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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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There are no bad units, only bad officers. This captures the essence of what Extreme Ownership is all about.
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Relax. Look around. Make a call.
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Get after it.
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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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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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All animals, including humans, need to see the connection between action and consequence in order to learn or react appropriately.
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Even the most competent of leaders can be overwhelmed if they try to tackle multiple problems or a number of tasks simultaneously.
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Faster. Stronger. Smarter. More humble. Less ego.
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And the more you build your will by doing hard things, the stronger your will becomes.
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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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Take care of your gear and your gear will take care of you.
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A good leader has nothing to prove, but everything to prove.
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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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Such concepts are simple, but not easy,
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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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Instead of letting the situation dictate our decisions, we must dictate the situation.
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After all, there can be no leadership where there is no team.
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There is no one else to blame. The leader must acknowledge mistakes and admit failures, take ownership of them, and develop a plan to win.
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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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As a leader, it is up to you to explain the bigger picture to him—and to all your front line leaders. That is a critical component of leadership
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Decisively engaged?
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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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Leaders must accept total responsibility, own problems that inhibit performance, and develop solutions to those problems.
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A mission statement tells your troops what you are doing.
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Departments and groups within the team must break down silos, depend on each other and understand who depends on them.
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