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“Distinction The functional level of a team is determined by the size of their commitments and their consistency in holding them. High-functioning teams make big commitments and hold them all the time and low-functioning teams don’t make commitments or fail to hold the ones they make.”
― Larry Yatch, How Leadership (Actually) Works: A Navy SEAL’s Complete System for Coordinating Teams

“We never failed to plan, yet we always planned to fail.”
― Larry Yatch, How Leadership (Actually) Works: A Navy SEAL’s Complete System for Coordinating Teams

“Management is fostering an environment that creates, enables and supports lead-followers toward the Desired End State.”
― Larry Yatch, How Leadership (Actually) Works: A Navy SEAL’s Complete System for Coordinating Teams

“If the role of a manager is to create, enable, and support leaders, the next question to ask is what behaviors are critical for creating, enabling, and supporting leaders? Here are the three that deserve attention: Create and communicate a clear Desired End State. Create, support, and enable leadership. Be a safety net in case of failure.”
― Larry Yatch, How Leadership (Actually) Works: A Navy SEAL’s Complete System for Coordinating Teams

“Whether you are talking to your wife or your business partner, make an agreement ahead of time that each of you is allowed at any point in time to ask the other person, “What did you hear me say?”
― Larry Yatch, How Leadership (Actually) Works: A Navy SEAL’s Complete System for Coordinating Teams

“Distinction Trauma results from being in an environment where I perceive that I do not have the control to keep myself safe.”
― Larry Yatch, How Leadership (Actually) Works: A Navy SEAL’s Complete System for Coordinating Teams

“Distinction Planning is represented by all the activities that prepare us for coordinated action toward a Desired End State.”
― Larry Yatch, How Leadership (Actually) Works: A Navy SEAL’s Complete System for Coordinating Teams

“Distinction Value is something of relative importance, utility, and worth.”
― Larry Yatch, How Leadership (Actually) Works: A Navy SEAL’s Complete System for Coordinating Teams

“Distinction Control is illustrated power in a given situation.”
― Larry Yatch, How Leadership (Actually) Works: A Navy SEAL’s Complete System for Coordinating Teams

“If you want to be an effective leader, you have to be an astute observer (and practitioner) of words and actions—both your own and those of others—because effective language is not passive. It is an active tool for action.”
― Larry Yatch, How Leadership (Actually) Works: A Navy SEAL’s Complete System for Coordinating Teams

“Your success in life is 100 percent dependent on your ability to coordinate action with others.”
― Larry Yatch, How Leadership (Actually) Works: A Navy SEAL’s Complete System for Coordinating Teams

“It happened because we never failed to plan and always planned to fail,”
― Larry Yatch, How Leadership (Actually) Works: A Navy SEAL’s Complete System for Coordinating Teams

“When I do reviews with my team members, I start every assessment with the same question: What do you expect from me on a consistent basis?”
― Larry Yatch, How Leadership (Actually) Works: A Navy SEAL’s Complete System for Coordinating Teams

“Distinction Perception is the two-way bridge between your sensing body and your understanding mind.”
― Larry Yatch, How Leadership (Actually) Works: A Navy SEAL’s Complete System for Coordinating Teams

“What’s the purpose of the team? What are the purposes of your teammates? What’s your role on the team? What are the roles of your teammates? What is the assessment of worth for the fulfillment of those roles? What are the key actions necessary to produce that assessment of worth?”
― Larry Yatch, How Leadership (Actually) Works: A Navy SEAL’s Complete System for Coordinating Teams

“Everyone led except our managers; they empowered leadership.”
― Larry Yatch, How Leadership (Actually) Works: A Navy SEAL’s Complete System for Coordinating Teams

“The meaning that we ascribe to the words we use and hear shapes the world that we experience, beginning with our relationships to other people and extending into every facet of life. Having precision with our words and listening for meaning from others makes better communication and coordination possible. Lack of intention around the words we use and listening only for what we want to hear creates confusion, struggle, and strife.”
― Larry Yatch, How Leadership (Actually) Works: A Navy SEAL’s Complete System for Coordinating Teams

“Success is an optimized daily experience that’s sustainable over time.”
― Larry Yatch, How Leadership (Actually) Works: A Navy SEAL’s Complete System for Coordinating Teams

“Distinction Mindset is the filter by which we change our perception of our world.”
― Larry Yatch, How Leadership (Actually) Works: A Navy SEAL’s Complete System for Coordinating Teams

“My perception is my reality; therefore, when I change my perception I change my world.”
― Larry Yatch, How Leadership (Actually) Works: A Navy SEAL’s Complete System for Coordinating Teams

“Distinction Culture is represented by groups of observable and predictable actions.”
― Larry Yatch, How Leadership (Actually) Works: A Navy SEAL’s Complete System for Coordinating Teams

“In order to ensure ownership and efficiency of communication we are going to share an elegant linguistic tool: To help remove the risk that you’ve ineffectively communicated, utilize a simple follow-up question: “What did you hear me say?”
― Larry Yatch, How Leadership (Actually) Works: A Navy SEAL’s Complete System for Coordinating Teams

“When people come to us for help, we ask ourselves very different questions, too: Is this something that is going to lead to the emotional state that I want to feel? Is this going to lead to the emotional state that we want to feel as a couple and as a team? If the answer is no, then our answer is no. Even if it means turning down a lot of money or missing out on that next achievement.”
― Larry Yatch, How Leadership (Actually) Works: A Navy SEAL’s Complete System for Coordinating Teams

“True success is not a future reward. It’s a daily experience. If you can let go of the struggle long enough to optimize your daily experience—not on vacation or on the rare day off, but in a way that’s truly sustainable—you can experience success right now. And not just now, but in the future as well.”
― Larry Yatch, How Leadership (Actually) Works: A Navy SEAL’s Complete System for Coordinating Teams

“Distinction Success is an optimized daily experience that’s sustainable over time.”
― Larry Yatch, How Leadership (Actually) Works: A Navy SEAL’s Complete System for Coordinating Teams

“When I say intentional communication, I mean impeccably precise, painfully specific word choices.”
― Larry Yatch, How Leadership (Actually) Works: A Navy SEAL’s Complete System for Coordinating Teams

“The incredible thing is, if the money doesn’t come, who gives a shit? We’re happy every day, and we can keep being happy for the foreseeable future because we have focused on making this happiness sustainable over time. Success comes first, and if achievements follow, it’s icing on the cake.”
― Larry Yatch, How Leadership (Actually) Works: A Navy SEAL’s Complete System for Coordinating Teams

“Where definitions are descriptive, distinctions are functional.”
― Larry Yatch, How Leadership (Actually) Works: A Navy SEAL’s Complete System for Coordinating Teams

“If you want to accomplish a lot of stuff, by all means, follow that pattern. The harder you struggle today, the more accomplishment you’ll have tomorrow. It’s true. But in the end, if you’ve struggled your entire life for a bunch of accomplishments but never felt the joy and satisfaction and experience of being truly successful…What’s the fucking point?”
― Larry Yatch, How Leadership (Actually) Works: A Navy SEAL’s Complete System for Coordinating Teams

“Distinctions Connection is represented by the link between two entities that determines their effect on each other. Authenticity is knowing your truth and acting in accordance with it. Vulnerability is knowing your limitations and having the courage to share them. Trust is living in the inherent goodness of another, choosing to act in connection instead of defense.”
― Larry Yatch, How Leadership (Actually) Works: A Navy SEAL’s Complete System for Coordinating Teams