Coaching practices for Extreme Ownership Practices

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• My departments are each winning their own little battles while the whole thing loses
• 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
• This used to be something I wanted, but ever since my boss started tracking it and someone’s always checking in, it’s curdled into a chore I do for them

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. 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
3. Take extreme ownership
   When the team fails, the leader looks first at what the leader did or failed to do.
   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. 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
7. Set clear, single-point accountability
   One named owner, an agreed standard, and a check-in cadence set up front — not nagging.
   Effective Delegation, Made Practical
8. 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
9. Guard against goal-induced tunnel vision on the stretch target
   Intense focus on a specific stretch metric can produce unethical shortcuts or costly neglect of adjacent areas.
   Stretch Goals: When Ambitious Targets Help and When They Backfire
10. Check the ego
    Ego clouds judgment, blocks feedback, and turns disagreements into contests.
    Extreme Ownership, Made Practical

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