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Extreme Ownership. Leaders must own everything in their world. There is no one else to blame.

Jocko Willink

Repetitive exceptional performance became a habit.
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Performance
The best leaders are not driven by ego or personal agendas.
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Leadership Virtue
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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Greatness Leadership Understand
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
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
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
Good leaders don’t make excuses.
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Goodness Leadership One Liner
For this reason, they must believe in the cause for which they are fighting.
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Believe Fight Inspirational Reason
Discipline equals freedom.
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Discipline Equality Freedom One Liner
Don’t ask your leader what you should do, tell them what you are going to do.
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Future Leadership Yourself
There is no growth in the comfort zone.
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Comfortable Growth One Liner
leadership is the single greatest factor in any team’s performance.
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Leadership Team
The only meaningful measure for a leader is whether the team succeeds or fails.
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Failure Success 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
If we could execute with a monumental effort just to reach an immediate goal that everyone could see, we could then continue to the next visually.
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Effort Goal See
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

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