Chapter 1 Extreme Ownership Flashcards
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On a team or in an organization all of the responsibility for success and failure rest with _____.
The leader
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What is the number one characteristic of any high preforming team winning team, in any military unit, organization, sports team, or business team?
Extreme Ownership
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What must leaders who practice extreme ownership take ownership of?
The leader must own everything, acknowledge mistakes, admit failures, take ownership of them and develop a plan to win.
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The best leaders don’t just take responsibility for their job, they, ____.
take Extreme Ownership of everything that impacts their mission.
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When subordinates aren’t doing what they should, leaders that exercise Extreme Ownership cannot blame the subordinate. They must look at themselves, why
The leader bears full responsibility for explaining the strategic mission, developing the tactics, and securing the training and resources to enable the team to properly and successfully execute.
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If an individual is not performing at the level requires for the team to succeed, what should the leader do? and if that fails to produce results?
The leader must train and mentor that under-performer, but if that continually fails to meet standards, then the leader must be loyal to the team and the mission above an individual and terminate the under-performer.
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Total responsibility for failure is a difficult thing to accept, and taking ownership when things failure is a difficult thing to accept, and taking ownership when things go wrong requires extraordinary humility and courage. But doing just that is absolutely necessity to________
It’s a necessity to learning, growing as a leader, and improving a team’s performance.
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Why is it that a leader exercising EO does not not take credit for the team’s success? Instead bestowing that honor on subordinate leaders and team members?
When leaders set such an example and expects this from his junior leaders w/i the team, the mindset develops into the team’s culture at every level. Junior leaders take charge of their smaller teams and their piece of the mission. Efficiency and effectiveness increase exponentially and high performance, winning team is the result.
