Critical Leadership Training with Navy SEAL Officer Jocko Willink

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• Speaker 1 0:28
• Speaker 2 1:02
• Speaker 3 35:31

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   Pennawd 1: I was never the most talented. 302s · Speaker 1

   I was never the most talented. I've never been the fastest, strongest, or smartest. I joined the Navy at 18. I went straight from boot camp to basic underwater demolition SEAL training, some of the toughest military training in the world. T…

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   Pennawd 2: And I said, hey, if you're looking for someone to whip your people into shape, you should probably find someone else. 62s · Speaker 1

   And I said, hey, if you're looking for someone to whip your people into shape, you should probably find someone else. Whipping people does not get the best out of them. The authoritarian leader that barks and yells and runs roughshod over e…

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   Pennawd 3: anxiety, resistance, and the desire to restore the loss of or perceived loss of a behavioral freedom. 301s · Speaker 2

   anxiety, resistance, and the desire to restore the loss of or perceived loss of a behavioral freedom. And when we get told to do something, our natural reaction is to push back. 99 % of the time, for me as a leader, I don't want to have to …

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   Pennawd 4: And focus on relationships up the chain of command to create leadership opportunities. 300s · Speaker 1

   And focus on relationships up the chain of command to create leadership opportunities. If we were going to parse down leadership... into its most bare components, what are some of the things that you would think of? Relationships. Oh, out o…

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   Pennawd 5: this relationship, I'm going to listen. 301s · Speaker 2

   this relationship, I'm going to listen. I'm going to give respect. I'm going to give trust. So Paige, you had a question. So how do you put those relationship skills into practice? Recording artist Paige wants to improve her collaborative p…

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   Pennawd 6: This is so powerful. 162s · Speaker 1

   This is so powerful. I was working with a company, and this company, they were losing a bunch of money, and over a series of a few months, they were able to turn around and get things going around and became profitable. The CEO got up in fr…

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   Pennawd 7: Absolutely. 301s · Speaker 2

   Absolutely. So I recently transitioned from an on -site, full, in -the -office 40 -hour -a -week job to being fully remote at my current company. And when you were back in the office, in those days, it's really easy to recognize. You're in …

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   Pennawd 8: well, the draftees didn't have the right attitude. 307s · Speaker 1

   well, the draftees didn't have the right attitude. The draftees didn't step up. The draftees didn't want to be there. But I found other leaders, notably Colonel David Hackworth. He loved the Army more than anything. And you know what he tho…

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   Pennawd 9: can't blame anyone else or anything else when something goes wrong. 64s · Speaker 1

   can't blame anyone else or anything else when something goes wrong. That is it. It is on me as a leader. That is extreme ownership. Let's meet Naomi, a business owner who has been struggling to keep her team on board for the long haul. Naom…

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    Pennawd 10: So... Whose fault is that there's a disconnect? 300s · Speaker 3

    So... Whose fault is that there's a disconnect? Mine. What do you think you're missing? What do you think you're lacking? I need to be able to balance. If I'm more of a self -starter and they're not, I am not a micromanager. I hesitate to u…

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    Pennawd 11: all of this was my fault. 153s · Speaker 1

    all of this was my fault. And I went... before my commanding officer, before my entire task unit, and I told them that there's only one person to blame, and that person is me. And when I explained that to my boss, I thought there was a dece…

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    Pennawd 12: I feel like. 300s · Speaker 2

    I feel like... It's an influx between different seasons and sometimes they're a little bit more excited, motivated versus, you know, when they feel maybe fatigued or burnt out from something and then they feel like they're at their capacity…

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    Pennawd 13: You have problems in life. 300s · Speaker 1

    You have problems in life. And really, because of Murphy's Law, all these problems come at you at the same time, right? You don't get one problem on a Monday afternoon, one problem on a Wednesday morning, and a final problem on Thursday aft…

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    Pennawd 14: there's a balance. 171s · Speaker 1

    there's a balance. Does this mean I forget about all my other problems? No. Doing an operation during my first deployment to Iraq, looking for a terrorist. And as we went into the initial target building and stormed in there to clear it of …

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    Pennawd 15: Now, no one likes to say this. 302s · Speaker 2

    Now, no one likes to say this. No one wants to follow me into combat. When the troops look at me and say, where should we go, Jocko? And I look at it and say, I guess we should go over there. No one wants to follow that leader, right? But t…

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    Pennawd 16: It's freedom. 208s · Speaker 2

    It's freedom. It's control over their own destiny, ownership of their lives. The best way to get people to step up and take ownership and take responsibility is to actually give them that ownership and responsibility. Give them the ability …