Level 1 — PositionPosition is the only level that requires no ability or effort to achieve. While nothing is wrong with leadership position, everything is wrong with relying only on that position to get people to follow.

Discipline 3: Align the organization by over-communicating the answers to each of the six questions. Employees need to hear the messages over and over (up to seven times is a good benchmark) before they understand and believe what leaders are saying.

People don’t just care about how they are doing, they care about their performance in relation to others.

Wanting to understand is a theoretical statement; willing to do his will takes action.

Anchor fluff and dig beneath opinions, ideas, requests, and emotions.

Too often, being successful when you are young is about survival. Some people are good at hiding their troubles. They are good at “falling up."

How to build company culture? First of all, mutual trust, transparency in the law, employees need to know what you expect from them and vice versa what they expect.

Implementing Extreme Ownership requires checking your ego and operating with a high degree of humility.

For any ranked society, whether a chiefdom or a state, one thus has to ask: why do the commoners tolerate the transfer of the fruits of their hard labor to kleptocrats?

The bonding (through skin and eye contact) between mother and baby after birth stimulates in both of them the feeling that they belong together, a feeling of oneness that ideally has been growing from the time of conception.