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Leadership is not about you. It's your opportunity to care and make life better for your people. #leadership #leaders #extremeownership #leadershipdevelopment

2025 is here. It’s time to get you and your team the leadership training you need to succeed next year. Join Jocko Willink, Leif Babin, and Echelon Front team at one of our in-person training events: • The Extreme Ownership Muster: The premier leadership conference to transform your skills and strategies. • Field Training Exercise: The most effective hands-on leadership lab where you’ll apply Extreme Ownership principles in real-world scenarios. • Battlefield Review: Walk Gettysburg and learn timeless leadership lessons from history’s pivotal moments. • Council: An exclusive retreat for executive leaders to tackle challenges, refine strategies, and elevate their leadership in intimate sessions with the EF Team. • Assembly: A leadership conference empowering women to lead at home and work with proven strategies and a powerful community. Uncertain about your 2025 direction or plans? Visit https://lnkd.in/dHnK6vV and sign up for the waitlist to stay informed.

"A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week." As World War II U.S. Army General George S. Patton Jr. notes, an 80% solution executed promptly is more effective than a delayed perfect plan, especially in high-pressure situations. Whether you're running a business, leading a team, or managing your household, there is always an element of chaos and uncertainty you have to manage. There is no 100% correct solution to problems. Leaders must make small, timely, iterative decisions based on what they know now. Then, reassess, reevaluate, and make adjustments where needed. The key is to be confident while mitigating the risks you can control. Use your experience, assess the situation, and lean into your team's insights to make the best possible call. If you're a leader looking for answers, subscribe to Leif Babin's free weekly newsletter: https://lnkd.in/gZTfNw5w

The biggest leadership lesson I've learned in combat, in business, and in life is this: BE HUMBLE OR GET HUMBLED. We all have an ego. Ego drives us to want to achieve a high standard, to outperform others, and push ourselves to achieve victory. But ego can be the most destructive force imaginable. Ego prevents us from learning and growing as leader and as a person when we think we are better than we are. Ego drives us to insist we are right, even when all measures indicate otherwise. Ego causes us to damage and destroy relationships, even with people who care deeply about us, as with people we depend on to help us accomplish our mission. Ego causes us to close our mind, thinking that we know better, instead of listening to others, seeking their inputs, and learning from their perspective. That's why, at Echelon Front, we believe the most important quality in a leader is humility. It's far easier to be the underdog than the reigning world champion or the industry leader. If things are going well, think about what you might be missing and where it could go wrong, so you can fight complacency and stay a step ahead of potential problems. So, keep your ego in check. Stay humble. Listen. Learn. Grow. Build relationships. And when you inevitably get humbled, use it as a learning opportunity. Take ownership and figure out what you can do better going forward. #leadership #leadershipdevelopment #leadershipguidance

Does Extreme Ownership mean people aren’t held accountable? Short answer: No. As Cordell Bennigson posits, accountability is a critical tool in a leader's toolbox—but it’s not the primary one. Leaders must first look inward and take responsibility. They hold themselves accountable for how they may have contributed to the problem. Extreme Ownership starts with self-accountability. That's where leadership begins.

Make the right decision. It may be more difficult, but your decision to be disciplined will lead you in the right direction. Decide to wake up early and get after it. Decide to eat clean and be healthy. Decide to work hard towards your long-term goals rather than giving into short-term satisfaction. Decide to change your life for the better. Join us for the #DEFReset, a 4-week program that will change your life through 8 simple daily habits. Teaming up with Jocko Willink, JOCKO FUEL, and Jason Khalipa, we're bringing you guided workouts, nutrition advice, and leadership lessons to set you up for success in 2025. Sign up now and get ready for January 1st: https://lnkd.in/gyDKs7fg

Of all the humbling lessons Jocko Willink and Leif Babin learned on the battlefield, the greatest lesson they brought back is that leadership is the critical factor in whether or not a team succeeds or fails. In order to create a winning team, you must first recognize the importance of leadership to its success. By leadership, we don’t just mean just the most senior people at the top of an organization. We mean leaders at every level of the team: the mid-level managers, the front-line leaders, right down to front-line troopers—the individual contributors who aren’t in charge of anybody else but themselves and their piece of the mission. Those individuals led—they built relationships, leveraged resources, took ownership of problems, and implemented solutions to get those problems solved. And that leadership at every level made all the difference. It’s the same for any organization, company, team, business, or industry. When every team member sees themselves as a leader and moves the team forward in a positive direction to accomplish that organization’s strategic goals, that is the greatest determining factor in whether that team succeeds or fails. Understanding this fundamental truth, then it becomes imperative that organizations invest in leadership development and dedicate efforts to helping their leaders at every level learn, grow, and improve. 

There's a lot that's out of your control. People will make poor decisions. The weather may rain out events or cause delays. Competition could outmaneuver you. External market factors can throw a wrench in your plans at any moment. But when you step up as a leader and take Extreme Ownership, you can take back control. Accept the problem rather than dwelling on it, and then identify what you can do to solve it. Ownership may not guarantee the outcomes, but how you respond to the problem gives you more control over the solution.

Good leaders don’t let emotions cloud their judgment. They practice detachment to stay calm, assess the situation, and make objective decisions. Jocko Willink taught this skill to his fellow Navy SEALs, including Echelon Front Instructor Matthew Hasby. Now, you can learn it too—through Echelon Front’s leadership training.

It's time for DEF {DISCIPLINE = FREEDOM} RESET If you want more freedom in life, you need to have more discipline. But discipline isn’t easy – it takes effort, commitment, consistency, and community. Join us for DEF Reset 2025 to GET SOME. Go to https://lnkd.in/gyDKs7fg to join us on the PATH. Jocko Willink Pete Roberts Brian Littlefield Joe Masciantonio Diane Preston Don Miller Christina Szymanski Karen Reehil Mark Dittami Tom Bartolo Chaz Jones David Moll Cameron Fischer Phil Mero