Saturday, April 7, 2018

Extreme ownership by J. Willink and L. Babin. Quotes

-Once people stop making excuses, stop blaming others, and take ownership of everything in their lives, they are compelled to take action to solve their problems.
-Implement the mindset of no excuses and no one else to blame.
-Without a team, there can be no leadership.
-There are two types of leaders: effective and ineffective.
-The humility to admit and own mistakes and develop a plan to overcome them is essential to success.
-Leadership is the most important factor on the battlefield, the single greatest reason behind the success of any team.
-The right decision, even when all seems lost, can snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.
-Subordinates must believe in the plan they are asked to execute, and most important, they must believe in and trust the leader they are asked to follow.
-Leaders must own everything in their world. There is no one else to blame.
-Despite all the failures of individuals, units, and leaders, and despite the myriad mistakes that had been made, there was only one person to blame for everything that had gone wrong on the operation: me.
-I had to take complete ownership of what went wrong. That is what a leader does, even if it means getting fired.
-There is only one person to blame for this: me.
-It was absolutely true, I was the leader. I was in charge and I was responsible. Thus, I had to take ownership of everything that went wrong.
-The leader is truly and ultimately responsible for everything.
-On any team, in any organization, all responsibility for success and failure rests with the leader. The leader must own everything in his world. There is no one else to blame. The leader must acknowledge mistakes and admit failures, take ownership of them, and develop a plan to win.

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