Don’t let your mind control you. Control your mind.
JOCKO WILLINKEven the most competent of leaders can be overwhelmed if they try to tackle multiple problems or a number of tasks simultaneously.
More Jocko Willink Quotes
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Don’t ask your leader what you should do, tell them what you are going to do.
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After all, there can be no leadership where there is no 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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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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Leadership is simple, but not easy.
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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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If mistakes happen, effective leaders don’t place blame on others. They take ownership of the mistakes, determine what went wrong, develop solutions to correct those mistakes and prevent them from happening again as they move forward.
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Generally, when a leader struggles, the root cause behind the problem is that the leader has leaned too far in one direction and steered off course. Awareness.
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Cover and Move, Simple, Prioritize and Execute, and Decentralized Command.
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Good leaders don’t make excuses.
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Although discipline demands control and asceticism, it actually results in freedom. When you have the discipline to get up early, you are rewarded with more free time.
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There is no easy way.
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Repetitive exceptional performance became a habit.
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As a leader, you have to balance the dichotomy, to be resolute where it matters but never inflexible and uncompromising on matters of little importance to the overall good of the team and the strategic mission.
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For this reason, they must believe in the cause for which they are fighting.
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