3. leadership & team development
“As a leader, you want to be seen—you need to be seen—as decisive, and willing to make tough choices. The outcome may be uncertain, but you have enough understanding and information to make a decision,” I said.
Jocko Willink , Leif Babin • Extreme Ownership
We come to you not with anger in our hearts, but with urgency in our voices. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xqy73nmK0vs
Most people suck at giving feedback.
Here’s a framework for feedback that creates behavior change:
Wes Kaotwitter.com“Don’t let the craziness emanating from the halls of power stop you from doing the good that you can do.”
Had I not witnessed this amazing transformation, I might have doubted it. But it was a glaring, undeniable example of one of the most fundamental and important truths at the heart of Extreme Ownership: there are no bad teams, only bad leaders. How is it possible that switching a single individual—only the leader—had completely turned around the
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When your team asks what to do, leaders should flip the question and ask: "What do you think we should do?"
good leaders don’t make excuses. Instead, they figure out a way to get it done and win.”
Jocko Willink , Leif Babin • Extreme Ownership
“The only sustainable competitive advantage is an organization’s ability to learn faster than the competition.” —Peter Senge