Jocko Podcast 5: John Willinck, 'Corrective Measures'

• Leadership is manipulating towards a positive outcome
• The best way to win is when your opponent does not even know you won and that there was even a battle
• Never undertake actions (in your team) that cannot be reversed
• If you are wrong, look forward to admitting it
• Do not flaunt your victories or sulk in your defeats
• How you react to winning or losing is the most important
• Mean sorry when you say it
• Above all, be humble
• Shift compliments, credit and praise to those around and under you
• Lose your ego
• Be your own worst critic
• The most important skill in leadership is your command of language
• If you want to write a book, write 1,000 words a day
• If you are not good at something, you have not put in enough time/effort
• Put a deadline on yourself
• What gets you a position is not often what keeps you there
• People are not who you want them to be, who you think they are or even who they should be; this is out of your control
• Learn from strengths and faults
• Discipline your body to free your mind
• Get after it