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“A leader must care about the troops, but at the same time the leader must complete the mission, and in doing so there will be risk and sometimes unavoidable consequences to the troops.” (The Dichotomy of Leadership Quotes)
Jocko Willink and Leif Babin
The Dichotomy of Leadership
“Accountability is an important tool that leaders must utilize. However, it should not be the primary tool. It must be balanced with other leadership tools, such as making sure people understand the why, empowering subordinates, and trusting they will do the right thing without direct oversight because they fully understand the importance of doing so.”
Jocko Willink and Leif Babin
The Dichotomy of Leadership
“As a leader, you have to balance the dichotomy, to be resolute where it matters but never inflexible and uncompromising on matters of little importance to the overall good of the team and the strategic mission.”
Jocko Willink and Leif Babin
The Dichotomy of Leadership
“If mistakes happen, effective leaders don’t place blame on others. They take ownership of the mistakes, determine what went wrong, develop solutions to correct those mistakes and prevent them from happening again as they move forward.”
Jocko Willink and Leif Babin
The Dichotomy of Leadership
“So as a leader it is critical to balance the strict discipline of standard procedures with the freedom to adapt, adjust, and man oeuvre to do what is best to support the overarching commander’s intent and achieve victory. For leaders, in combat, business, and life, be disciplined, but not rigid.”
Jocko Willink and Leif Babin
The Dichotomy of Leadership
“The best platoons and task units embraced those lessons with Extreme Ownership, acknowledged the problems, and figured out ways to solve them. They constantly improved. The worst units rejected the criticism and complained about how training was too hard.”
Jocko Willink and Leif Babin
The Dichotomy of Leadership
“To not move around, observe, and analyze, in order to make the best decisions possible, was to fail as a leader and fail the team.”
Jocko Willink and Leif Babin
The Dichotomy of Leadership
“When a leader takes too much ownership, there is no ownership left for the team or subordinate leaders to take. So the team loses initiative, they lose momentum, they won’t make any decision, they just sit around and wait to be told what to do.”
Jocko Willink and Leif Babin
The Dichotomy of Leadership
