93: Jocko Willink | Leading on the Line Between Extreme and Reckless
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
4.8 • 12.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2018
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Jocko Willink (@jockowillink) rejoins us to discuss his latest book, The Dichotomy of Leadership: Balancing the Challenges of Extreme Ownership to Lead and Win.
What We Discuss with Jocko Willink:- What happens when we take the "extreme" part of extreme ownership too literally.
- Why otherwise positive characteristics can be detrimental to progress when we forget the importance of balance.
- When to take responsibility, and what the limits of this actually are.
- Why we should stop being the easy button for those we manage and lead.
- The concept of leadership capital: how to build it, when to use it, and when not to use it.
- And much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the show. I'm Jordan Harbinger as always. I'm here with my producer Jason DeFilippo |
| 0:05.2 | Today, we're talking again with my friend Jacco Willink his new book the dichotomy of leadership |
| 0:11.8 | Balancing the challenges of extreme ownership to lead and win |
| 0:15.6 | Extreme ownership if you read that book and if you haven't by the way that book just crushed it tons of people were impacted by this |
| 0:21.8 | One of my favorite books my wife and I love that it's really had a huge impact on my life as well |
| 0:27.5 | Both in business and otherwise this new book the dichotomy of leadership has leadership tensions such as |
| 0:34.9 | Prepare but don't over prepare be aggressive but not reckless things like that |
| 0:38.8 | We're gonna explain all of these we're gonna go into depth on some of the examples here in the show and today |
| 0:44.4 | We'll learn when to take responsibility or take extreme ownership and what the limits of that actually are |
| 0:51.1 | We'll also explore why we should stop being the easy button for those we manage and lead and |
| 0:56.8 | We'll discover the concept of leadership capital how to build it when to use it and more importantly when not to use it |
| 1:04.7 | Of course, we've got worksheets for this episode which we do for every show |
| 1:08.6 | So if you want to solidify your understanding of all the practicals and key takeaways here from Jacco Willink |
| 1:14.0 | That link is in the show notes |
| 1:16.0 | Jordan Harbinger.com |
| 1:18.0 | slash podcast and if you want to know how I managed to book all these great people |
| 1:21.9 | Manage my relationships using systems and tiny habits check out our level one course. It's free |
| 1:27.9 | It's over at advanced human dynamics.com slash level one now. Here's Jacco Willink |
| 1:34.5 | I look at things I wanted to do when I was a kid and even in my two and I say even in my 20s and early 30s |
| 1:41.3 | And I just think what was I thinking? You know, I would never do that stuff now. I stuff hurts more now |
| 1:47.3 | And I've lost a lot of my I guess probably like desire for adventure |
| 1:53.0 | You know going to North Korea and stuff like that four times that was cool now |
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