Sublime

there can be no leadership where there is no team.

When personal agendas become more important than the team and the overarching mission’s success, performance suffers and failure ensues.

leadership is the most important thing on the battlefield and the principles of good leadership do not change regardless of the mission, the environment, or the personalities of those involved. Leading is leading.

Laws of Combat that Jocko had taught us: Cover and Move, Simple, Prioritize and Execute, and Decentralized Command. The Laws of Combat were the key to not just surviving a dire situation such as this, but actually thriving, enabling us to totally dominate the enemy and win.

If your team doesn’t get it, you have not kept things simple and you have failed.

If an individual on the team is not performing at the level required for the team to succeed, the leader must train and mentor that underperformer. But if the underperformer continually fails to meet standards, then a leader who exercises Extreme Ownership must be loyal to the team and the mission above any individual. If underperformers cannot imp

Embrace accountability and take business risks under your own name. Society will reward you with responsibility, equity, and leverage.

“Second,” Ege went on, “we’re retraining our habits—once we’ve ingrained this type of communication, this information sharing, these networks as not just tasks but habits, then it becomes unstoppable.”