“Only when leaders at all levels understand and believe in the mission can they pass that understanding and belief to their teams so that they can persevere through challenges, execute, and win.”
— Jocko Willink & Leif Babin, Extreme Ownership
“Departments and groups within the team must break down silos, depend on each other and understand who depends on them.. [otherwise] .. the results can be catastrophic to the overall team’s performance.”
— Jocko Willink & Leif Babin, Extreme Ownership
“Team members, departments, and supporting assets must always “Cover and Move” – help each other, work together, and support each other to win.”
— Jocko Willink & Leif Babin, Extreme Ownership
“Extreme ownership requires leaders to look at an organization’s problems through objective lens of reality, without emotional attachments to agendas or plans.”
— Jocko Willink & Leif Babin, Extreme Ownership
“In any organization, goals must always be in alignment. If goals aren’t aligned at some level, this issue must be addressed and rectified.”
— Jocko Willink & Leif Babin, Extreme Ownership
“In order to convince and inspire others to follow and accomplish a mission, a leader must be a true believer in the mission. ”
— Jocko Willink & Leif Babin, Extreme Ownership
“When it comes standards, as a leader, it’s not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate.”
— Jocko Willink & Leif Babin, Extreme Ownership
“Teams must have junior leaders ready to step up and temporarily take on the roles and responsibilities of their immediate bosses to carry on the team’s mission and get the job done, if necessary.”
— Jocko Willink & Leif Babin, Extreme Ownership
“Ask questions until you understand ‘why’, so you can believe in what you are doing, and you can pass that information down the chain to your team with confidence, so they can get out and execute the mission.”
— Jocko Willink & Leif Babin, Extreme Ownership
“It falls on leaders to continually keep perspective on the strategic mission and remind the team that they are part of the greater team and the strategic mission is paramount.”
— Jocko Willink & Leif Babin, Extreme Ownership
“Leaders must always operate with the understanding that they are part of something greater than themselves and their own personal interests.”
