Coaching practices for Extreme Ownership at Work

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• My team dropped the ball again and my first instinct is to point at them or at circumstances
• My departments are each winning their own little battles while the whole thing loses
• Every single decision funnels through me
• When something goes wrong my first move is to find whose fault it was, and being right about that leaves me stuck
• The moment someone challenges my call I feel myself bristle and start building a case for why I’m right, and I’ve noticed people have basically stopped bringing me bad news

Practices that may help

1. Extreme Ownership, Made Practical
   Extreme Ownership, from Navy SEAL officers Jocko Willink and Leif Babin, says the leader owns everything in their world — outcomes, mistakes, and the performance of the team — with no excuses and no blame passed down. It is a battlefield-tested practitioner model, not a lab-tested intervention: the mechanisms are sound, the evidence is experiential.
2. Take extreme ownership
   When the team fails, the leader looks first at what the leader did or failed to do.
   Extreme Ownership, Made Practical
3. Cover and move (teamwork over silos)
   Every team and department exists to support the others toward the same mission, not to win locally.
   Extreme Ownership, Made Practical
4. Decentralized command
   Push decisions to the people closest to the problem, bounded by a clear commander’s intent.
   Extreme Ownership, Made Practical
5. Take extreme ownership of outcomes — even ones that aren’t your fault
   Claiming ownership of everything in your domain — even external failures — is the fastest path to fixing them.
   Discipline Equals Freedom: Jocko Willink's Framework
6. Check the ego
   Ego clouds judgment, blocks feedback, and turns disagreements into contests.
   Extreme Ownership, Made Practical
7. Believe — and make the why clear
   You cannot lead people toward a mission you do not understand or believe in yourself.
   Extreme Ownership, Made Practical
8. Protect your sense of autonomy while pursuing the goal
   Keep the goal yours even when a coach, boss, or partner is involved in it.
   Self-Concordant Goals, Made Practical
9. Prioritize and execute
   Under overload, name the single highest priority, solve it, then move to the next.
   Extreme Ownership, Made Practical
10. Invest in people’s ownership: give stakes and stay back
    Multipliers give full ownership and hold people responsible; Diminishers over-resource and under-trust.
    Multipliers: How Leaders Amplify the Intelligence Around Them

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