Extreme Ownership Chapter 1 PDF

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Candidacy has been an opportunity for leadership that if taken advantage of can lead to leadership opportunities in AMC eventually. This chapter in this book has made me reflect on candidacy so far and see how I have been leading and how I haven’t. Jacko talked about the importance of leading with your words and your actions, and how that’s what good leaders do. I think at the start of candidacy I struggled with leading with words, not just actions. I felt that as a freshman trying to speak up would be somewhat pointless because I thought I would be ignored. Over time though, I learned the more I spoke up the more respect I gained, whether it was in robe or just to the group in general, the more I spoke up the more I was listened to. Another thing I took away from this was his ownership of failure for his group. He took complete responsibility for a failed mission when there is things that other people had messed up. It all comes back to preparation, and as a leader it is your job to prepare your team. So when a mission fails the leader needs to take full responsibility. This is so difficult because it is easy to point fingers and blame, but a good leader will take all of the blame because it will keep the rest of the team unified....