How Leadership (Actually) Works Quotes

“We never failed to plan, yet we always planned to fail.”
― Larry Yatch, How Leadership (Actually) Works: A Navy SEAL’s Complete System for Coordinating Teams

“Distinction The functional level of a team is determined by the size of their commitments and their consistency in holding them. High-functioning teams make big commitments and hold them all the time and low-functioning teams don’t make commitments or fail to hold the ones they make.”
― Larry Yatch, How Leadership (Actually) Works: A Navy SEAL’s Complete System for Coordinating Teams

“The purest form of leadership is the ability to evoke effective action in others naturally, without force.”
― Larry Yatch, How Leadership (Actually) Works: A Navy SEAL’s Complete System for Coordinating Teams

“It happened because we never failed to plan and always planned to fail,”
― Larry Yatch, How Leadership (Actually) Works: A Navy SEAL’s Complete System for Coordinating Teams

“Mike Tyson once said, “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face.” That’s not true if you plan to get punched in the face.”
― Larry Yatch, How Leadership (Actually) Works: A Navy SEAL’s Complete System for Coordinating Teams

“Distinction Planning is represented by all the activities that prepare us for coordinated action toward a Desired End State.”
― Larry Yatch, How Leadership (Actually) Works: A Navy SEAL’s Complete System for Coordinating Teams

“The Golden Rule of Leadership Do not lead the way you want to be led, lead to the functional level of your team.”
― Larry Yatch, How Leadership (Actually) Works: A Navy SEAL’s Complete System for Coordinating Teams

“Distinction Culture is represented by groups of observable and predictable actions.”
― Larry Yatch, How Leadership (Actually) Works: A Navy SEAL’s Complete System for Coordinating Teams

“If the role of a manager is to create, enable, and support leaders, the next question to ask is what behaviors are critical for creating, enabling, and supporting leaders? Here are the three that deserve attention: Create and communicate a clear Desired End State. Create, support, and enable leadership. Be a safety net in case of failure.”
― Larry Yatch, How Leadership (Actually) Works: A Navy SEAL’s Complete System for Coordinating Teams

“Everyone led except our managers; they empowered leadership.”
― Larry Yatch, How Leadership (Actually) Works: A Navy SEAL’s Complete System for Coordinating Teams

“Distinction Management is fostering an environment that creates, enables and supports lead-followers toward the Desired End State.”
― Larry Yatch, How Leadership (Actually) Works: A Navy SEAL’s Complete System for Coordinating Teams

“Management is fostering an environment that creates, enables and supports lead-followers toward the Desired End State.”
― Larry Yatch, How Leadership (Actually) Works: A Navy SEAL’s Complete System for Coordinating Teams

“Distinctions Leadership is creating an environment that evokes followers into effective action.”
― Larry Yatch, How Leadership (Actually) Works: A Navy SEAL’s Complete System for Coordinating Teams

“The primary role of a leader is to evoke effective action in others. The primary role of a follower is to be in effective action toward the Desired End State.”
― Larry Yatch, How Leadership (Actually) Works: A Navy SEAL’s Complete System for Coordinating Teams

“Distinction Self-regulation is the use of intention to control our behavior or thoughts.”
― Larry Yatch, How Leadership (Actually) Works: A Navy SEAL’s Complete System for Coordinating Teams

“Distinction Control is illustrated power in a given situation.”
― Larry Yatch, How Leadership (Actually) Works: A Navy SEAL’s Complete System for Coordinating Teams

“Distinction Mindset is the filter by which we change our perception of our world.”
― Larry Yatch, How Leadership (Actually) Works: A Navy SEAL’s Complete System for Coordinating Teams

“Distinction Perception is the two-way bridge between your sensing body and your understanding mind.”
― Larry Yatch, How Leadership (Actually) Works: A Navy SEAL’s Complete System for Coordinating Teams

“Distinction Mindset is the filter that controls how you experience your world and act in it.”
― Larry Yatch, How Leadership (Actually) Works: A Navy SEAL’s Complete System for Coordinating Teams

“The new paradigm says that focusing solely on piling up accomplishments makes it impossible for us to experience success—an optimized daily experience that’s sustainable over time.”
― Larry Yatch, How Leadership (Actually) Works: A Navy SEAL’s Complete System for Coordinating Teams

“Distinction Behavior is represented by groups of observable and predictable actions.”
― Larry Yatch, How Leadership (Actually) Works: A Navy SEAL’s Complete System for Coordinating Teams

“My perception is my reality; therefore, when I change my perception I change my world.”
― Larry Yatch, How Leadership (Actually) Works: A Navy SEAL’s Complete System for Coordinating Teams

“Distinctions Connection is represented by the link between two entities that determines their effect on each other. Authenticity is knowing your truth and acting in accordance with it. Vulnerability is knowing your limitations and having the courage to share them. Trust is living in the inherent goodness of another, choosing to act in connection instead of defense.”
― Larry Yatch, How Leadership (Actually) Works: A Navy SEAL’s Complete System for Coordinating Teams

“When I do reviews with my team members, I start every assessment with the same question: What do you expect from me on a consistent basis?”
― Larry Yatch, How Leadership (Actually) Works: A Navy SEAL’s Complete System for Coordinating Teams

“I’ve been reading this amazing book by a Navy SEAL who says that high-functioning teams must be clear on three things: the purpose of the team, my role within the team, and the value I bring to the team. I want to take actions that are consistently aligned with those things, but I’m not clear on what some of them are. This is what I think our team’s purpose is, what my role is, what value I bring to the team, and what valuable actions I must hold. Am I on track?”
― Larry Yatch, How Leadership (Actually) Works: A Navy SEAL’s Complete System for Coordinating Teams

“What’s the purpose of the team? What are the purposes of your teammates? What’s your role on the team? What are the roles of your teammates? What is the assessment of worth for the fulfillment of those roles? What are the key actions necessary to produce that assessment of worth?”
― Larry Yatch, How Leadership (Actually) Works: A Navy SEAL’s Complete System for Coordinating Teams

“Distinction Purpose is that which drives toward a specific end.”
― Larry Yatch, How Leadership (Actually) Works: A Navy SEAL’s Complete System for Coordinating Teams

“Distinction Value is something of relative importance, utility, and worth.”
― Larry Yatch, How Leadership (Actually) Works: A Navy SEAL’s Complete System for Coordinating Teams

“Distinction Trauma results from being in an environment where I perceive that I do not have the control to keep myself safe.”
― Larry Yatch, How Leadership (Actually) Works: A Navy SEAL’s Complete System for Coordinating Teams

“Distinction A team is two or more individuals that coordinate action to create a different future.”
― Larry Yatch, How Leadership (Actually) Works: A Navy SEAL’s Complete System for Coordinating Teams