Extreme Ownership Summary

Leading a team to success means taking responsibility for its failures and empowering yourself to make the necessary changes for improvement.

Own Mistakes: Accepting blame can save your job and maintain leadership integrity.

Set the Example: Leaders who take responsibility set a precedent for their teams, fostering a culture of accountability. For instance, if you make a mistake, acknowledge it openly and discuss how to rectify it.

This shows your team that it's okay to make mistakes as long as they are willing to learn from them and take responsibility.

Blaming others creates a dysfunctional team while taking ownership empowers the team to solve problems.

💡 Instead of blaming, focus on understanding the root cause and finding solutions together.

• Leaders must own everything in their world.
• Discipline equals freedom.

It's important to deeply understand and wholeheartedly believe in the mission to execute it successfully.

Key points to help you achieve this:

• Leader Support: Leaders must be fully on board with the objectives to effectively communicate them to their team.
• Clarify Importance: If the mission's importance is not clear, seek clarification from higher-ups.
• Commitment: Once you are fully committed, pass on that conviction to your team for their commitment.

Remember: Understanding and believing in the mission is critical to its success! 🚀

When something goes wrong, you should seek responsibility instead of avoiding it. You, as the leader, need to figure out what you can do to correct for the team.

As the leader, it is your fault when your team members under-performed because you accepted and tolerated it. Not standing for less than excellent performance is more important than setting lofty standards.

The most successful men and women in the civilian world practice extreme ownership. 

The principles of extreme ownership are simple but not easy. Taking ownership of mistakes and failures is hard, but it is key to learning, developing solutions and ultimate success. 

A true leader takes ownership of everything in his domain. This includes the outcome and everything that affects it. 

A true leader doesn’t find excuses or blame others. Instead, he puts his ego aside, takes full responsibility for the outcome and considers what he should do differently. When you demand extreme ownership of yourself and others, your example will inspire others to follow.

Complications management epistle

• We have generally thought in our life that circumstances are build by luck, favour and support.
• Totally wrong it has been build and nourished by us.🤔
• The simplest path is to stay with the complications and just accept it. Only you are the responsible person for your happening.

1. Any thing which involves you is done by you.
2. People under your command do right thing because of you & wrong things because of you.
3. Most difficult part of any project is the self accountability of leader.

A common theme to day is that if something goes wrong, you figure out who offended you, or who caused the problem, or what outside force caused this thing to happen and hold THEM accountable. This book is a refreshingly honest and direct instruction manual on how to look at yourself and how YOU could have done something differently to get a better outcome. We can't control others, how about we all figure out how to control ourselves and hold ourselves accountable??