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.
JOCKO WILLINKTake care of your gear and your gear will take care of you.
More Jocko Willink Quotes
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After all, there can be no leadership where there is no team.
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It’s not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate.
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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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The infamous they.
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Good leaders don’t make excuses.
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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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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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Most important of all, he believed winning was possible.
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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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Leaders must accept total responsibility, own problems that inhibit performance, and develop solutions to those problems.
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In order to convince and inspire others to follow and accomplish a mission, a leader must be a true believer in the mission.
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Repetitive exceptional performance became a habit.
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Get after it.
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The only meaningful measure for a leader is whether the team succeeds or fails.
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The most fundamental and important truths at the heart of Extreme Ownership: there are no bad teams, only bad leaders.
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