If you aren’t winning, then you aren’t making the right decisions.

Keywords

Extreme Ownership, Tortured Genius

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The right decision, even when all seems lost, can snatch victory from the jaws of defeat

Extreme Ownership: there are no bad teams, only bad leaders.

Such training graduated men who were not only physically tough but who could also out-think their adversary.

I discovered that it was far more effective to focus their efforts not on the days to come or the far-distant finish line they couldn’t yet see, but instead on a physical goal immediately in front of them—the beach marker, landmark, or road sign a hundred yards ahead

Ultimately, they must fully accept that there truly are no bad teams, only bad leaders.

When setting expectations, no matter what has been said or written, if substandard performance is accepted and no one is held accountable–if there are no concequences– the poor performance becomes the new standard.

Teams need a forcing function to get the different members working together to accomplish the mission and that is what leadership is all about.

But I learned that good leaders don’t make excuses. Instead they figure out a way to get it done and win.

Each member demanded the highest performance from the others. Repetitive expectional performance became a habit.. Each individual knew what they needed to do to win and did it.

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