Leadership isn’t one person leading a team. It is a group of leaders working together, up and down the chain of command, to lead.
JOCKO WILLINKAnd the more you build your will by doing hard things, the stronger your will becomes.
More Jocko Willink Quotes
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Relax. Look around. Make a call.
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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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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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Decisively engaged?
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The best leaders are not driven by ego or personal agendas.
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Stop researching every aspect of it and reading all about it and debating the pros and cons of it, Start doing it.
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A good leader has nothing to prove, but everything to prove.
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The only meaningful measure for a leader is whether the team succeeds or fails.
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Such concepts are simple, but not easy,
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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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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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Don’t ask your leader what you should do, tell them what you are going to do.
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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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Don’t let your mind control you. Control your mind.
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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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