All elements within the greater team are crucial and must work together to accomplish the mission, mutually supporting one another for that singular purpose.
JOCKO WILLINKRemember: the enemy gets a vote.
More Jocko Willink Quotes
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Take care of your gear and your gear will take care of you.
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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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The infamous they.
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There is no growth in the comfort zone.
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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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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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The only meaningful measure for a leader is whether the team succeeds or fails.
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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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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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The best leaders are not driven by ego or personal agendas.
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The test for a successful brief is simple: Do the team and the supporting elements understand it?
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Faster. Stronger. Smarter. More humble. Less ego.
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A good leader has nothing to prove, but everything to prove.
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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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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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