People do not follow robots.
JOCKO WILLINK
And the more you build your will by doing hard things, the stronger your will becomes.
More Jocko Willink Quotes
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People do not follow robots.
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When it comes to standards, as a leader, it’s not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate.
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The only meaningful measure for a leader is whether the team succeeds or fails.
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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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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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The focus must always be on how to best accomplish the mission.
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Get after it.
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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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After all, there can be no leadership where there is no team.
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Take care of your gear and your gear will take care of you.
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Instead of letting the situation dictate our decisions, we must dictate the situation.
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A leader must lead but also be ready to follow. Sometimes, another member of the team—perhaps a subordinate or direct report—might be in a better position to develop a plan, make a decision, or lead through a specific situation.
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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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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.
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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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Good leaders don’t make excuses.
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