“What makes a good commander? The immediate answer that comes to mind is humility. Because you’ve got to be humble and you’ve got to be coachable…Later, when I was running training, we

Are you listening? Is your mind open? Is there a better way to do things?

Leadership

would fire a couple of leaders from every SEAL Team because they couldn’t lead. It was almost always a question of their ability to listen, open their mind, and see that, maybe, there’s a better way to do things. That is from a lack of humility.”

Jocko Willink in Tim Ferriss’s, Tools of Titans