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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

Jocko Willink

Good leaders are rare; bad leaders are common.
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Bad Goodness Leadership
Extreme Ownership. Leaders must own everything in their world. There is no one else to blame.
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Blame Leadership World
Establishing an effective and repeatable planning process is critical to the success of any team.
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Establishment Planning Success Team
Plans and orders must be communicated in a manner that is simple, clear, and concise. Everyone
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Planning Simplicity
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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Planning Simplicity Team Understand
A good leader has nothing to prove, but everything to prove.
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Deep Goodness Leadership
Leadership is simple, but not easy.
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Easy Leadership Simplicity
Trust is not blindly given. It must be built over time.
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Time Trust
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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Blame Development Failure Leadership Mistake Oneself Win
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
There is no easy way.
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Easy Hard Time Inspirational
The best leaders are not driven by ego or personal agendas.
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Leadership Virtue
The test for a successful brief is simple: Do the team and the supporting elements understand it?
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Success Team Understand
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
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
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

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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