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

Jocko Willink

A mission statement tells your troops what you are doing.
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Team Yourself
Take care of your gear and your gear will take care of you.
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Care Material
The focus must always be on how to best accomplish the mission.
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Accomplishment Best Focus
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
The leader must own everything in his or her world.
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Himself Leadership World
After all, there can be no leadership where there is no team.
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Leadership Team
His realistic assessment, acknowledgment of failure, and ownership of the problem were key to developing a plan to improve performance and ultimately win.
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Development Failure Himself Improvement Problem Win
Remember to keep your ego in check. Don’t judge people.
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Judgement People Remember Yourself
There is no easy way.
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Easy Hard Time Inspirational
Repetitive exceptional performance became a habit.
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Performance
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
Discipline equals freedom.
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Discipline Equality Freedom One Liner
Good leaders are rare; bad leaders are common.
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Bad Goodness Leadership
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
The greatest of these was the recognition that leadership is the most important factor on the battlefield, the single greatest reason behind the success of any team.
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Greatness Leadership Team
And the more you build your will by doing hard things, the stronger your will becomes.
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Strong Willing Yourself
Is this what I want to be? This? Is this all I’ve got—is this everything I can give? Is this going to be my life? Do I accept that?
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Acceptance Generosity Life Myself Philosophy
Good leaders don’t make excuses.
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Goodness Leadership One Liner
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
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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Acceptance Expectation Leadership Tolerance
Motivation is fickle. It comes and goes.
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Motivational One Liner
Leadership is simple, but not easy.
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Easy Leadership Simplicity
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
Cover and Move, Simple, Prioritize and Execute, and Decentralized Command.
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Act Simplicity
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
Whether on the battlefield or in the business world, leaders must be comfortable accepting some level of risk.
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Business Comfortable Leadership Risk Understand War World
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

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