Navy SEALs Reveal the One Thing That Will Cause You to Fail as a Leader ’99.9 Percent’ of the Time

From The Blaze.com (Nov. 10):

Two former Navy SEALs are revealing the one thing that causes people to fail as a leader “99.9 percent of the time,” and it has nothing to do one’s physical or mental abilities.

Jocko Willink and Leif Babin, who co-authored the book “Extreme Ownership,” explained in a Business Insider video recently that having success as a SEAL leader has nothing to do with one’s physical skills or even their mental toughness.

“What it has to do with is the fact that the person is not humble enough to accept responsibility when things go wrong, accept that there might be better ways to do things, and they just have a closed mind,” Willink said. ”They can’t change, and that’s what makes a person fail as a leader.”

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Good advice for anyone running for president and the current president—especially the current president.