Coaching practices for Extreme Ownership During a Big Change

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• My team dropped the ball again and my first instinct is to point at them or at circumstances
• 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
• When I push my team on the hard stuff they either shut down and start blaming each other or just nod and carry on as before
• I keep selling this change as a clear win and can’t understand why people are dragging their feet

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. Decentralized command
   Push decisions to the people closest to the problem, bounded by a clear commander’s intent.
   Extreme Ownership, Made Practical
4. 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
5. Regulate the level of distress in the system
   Keep productive pressure high enough to motivate change but low enough to prevent shutdown.
   Adaptive Leadership, Made Practical
6. Name the loss the adaptive challenge requires
   Explicitly acknowledge what people must give up — not just what they will gain.
   Adaptive Leadership, Made Practical
7. Check the ego
   Ego clouds judgment, blocks feedback, and turns disagreements into contests.
   Extreme Ownership, Made Practical
8. Focus daily energy on what is within today’s influence
   When the ultimate outcome is uncertain and distant, redirect attention to the present-moment actions that are completely within your control.
   The Stockdale Paradox, Made Practical
9. Identify and anticipate upcoming transition windows
   Treat approaching life changes as scheduled opportunities for habit installation — plan before the transition, not after.
   The Habit Discontinuity Effect
10. Give the work back without abandoning people
    Resist taking ownership of problems that belong to the people facing the adaptive challenge.
    Adaptive Leadership, Made Practical

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