Coaching practices for Extreme Ownership Summary

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• Every single decision funnels through me
• 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
• When something goes wrong my first move is to find whose fault it was, and being right about that leaves me stuck
• Everything is on fire at once and it all feels equally urgent, so I freeze

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. Decentralized command
   Push decisions to the people closest to the problem, bounded by a clear commander’s intent.
   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. 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
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. Prioritize and execute
   Under overload, name the single highest priority, solve it, then move to the next.
   Extreme Ownership, Made Practical
7. Take radical responsibility for your choices
   Own every choice completely — including its unintended consequences and the unchosen conditions within which you chose.
   Existentialism and Radical Choice
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. Check the ego
   Ego clouds judgment, blocks feedback, and turns disagreements into contests.
   Extreme Ownership, Made Practical
10. 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

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