
“Prioritize your problems and take care of them one at a time, the highest priority first. Don’t try to do everything at once or you won’t be successful.” I explained how a leader who tries to take on too many problems simultaneously will likely fail at them all.”
― Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
― Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
“The Dichotomy of Leadership A good leader must be: • confident but not cocky; • courageous but not foolhardy; • competitive but a gracious loser; • attentive to details but not obsessed by them; • strong but have endurance; • a leader and follower; • humble not passive; • aggressive not overbearing; • quiet not silent; • calm but not robotic, logical but not devoid of emotions; • close with the troops but not so close that one becomes more important than another or more important than the good of the team; not so close that they forget who is in charge. • able to execute Extreme Ownership, while exercising Decentralized Command. A good leader has nothing to prove, but everything to prove. APPLICATION”
― Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
― Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win

“If you haven't read hundreds of books, you are functionally illiterate, and you will be incompetent, because your personal experiences alone aren't broad enough to sustain you.”
― Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead
― Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead

“You don’t always control your circumstances, but you can always control your response.”
― Call Sign Chaos
― Call Sign Chaos

“Whenever we are in the box, we have a need that is met by others’ poor behavior. And so our boxes encourage more poor behavior in others, even if that behavior makes our lives more difficult.”
― Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box
― Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box
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