This Silent Tactic Will Change How You Lead | Jocko Willink | Dave Berke | The Debrief

In this video, best-selling author and former Navy SEAL Jocko Willink and retired TOPGUN Pilot Dave Berke discuss how to use implied intent correctly and efficiently.
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[@user-ew3oj7cd2i]

Hitting the nail on the head once again. When a leader fails to communicate a deviation of the implied intent/tasks, it can breed so much hesitation, confusion, and uncertainty for along time after. Especially if that person in charge punishes subordinates for it.

[@EchelonFront]

Right on, this is a good readback.

[@growing367]

0:40 implied intent 2:55 5:10 make it clear 5:30 1:45 confused 2:20 battle contact 3:15 4:10 6:30 culture & values 8:15 Patton decentralized command9:15 10:00 10:25 deconstruct the bad decision why11:00

[@scoogsy]

Sage advice as always. We just ran an exercise with our team specifically dealing with team toxicity. I setup workshops that the team drove to develop their own set of conflict protocols, and team agreements. This set them up to solve their own problems, and understand without saying anything, how to deal with one another in a way people had already bought in on. The impact of this activity and the immediacy of its effect were pretty surprising to watch. I think implied intent runs deep throughout all aspects of team behaviour.

[@jsmall5297]

This is gold

[@RootADSR]

Well said brother !!

[@philipschifano5876]

Loving the debrief. Great move. As always

[@samwalker3441]

Absolutely brilliant analysis and process.

[@uli5869]

this

[@EchelonFront]

Thank you, sir. Jocko has an exceptional leadership perspective we can all learn from.

[@samwalker3441]

for sure@@EchelonFront

[@user-dm1zn9bs4c]

Thank you

[@walkerpercy8702]

It's just intent. Make the intent clear. You don't need to complicate it and try to be profound and call it "implied intent" unless you're marketing your brand to get speaking fees. Also it can be explained in 30 seconds.

[@loveserveascend]

👌🏼 Perfect

[@paulisaaksohn9179]

Makes perfect sense, but I am afraid some superiors are so ignorant the entire notion of "implied intent" is either totally lost on them or it just keeps fluctuating you never can guess what is it they actually want every time they task you with some "mission". I always ask for clarification when dealing with such folks. As always, thanks a lot, Jocko and Dave!You two are awesome and I wish someone remotely close to you in IQ and EQ were leading our organization.

[@EchelonFront]

Implied Intent can be lost when a leader is not focused on the strategic mission and regularly communicates with the frontlines. Asking for clarification and connecting the task at hand to the overall mission will keep you moving forward in the right direction, but be sure to be as simple, clear, and concise in these communication as possible.

[@TadWolfe]

Set and maintain high standards 😊

[@EchelonFront]

Spot on. You set the example as the leader, and you must maintain it for yourself and the team.

[@jeffmejia111]

Poor leadership is when the 'implied intent' keeps changing from assignment to assignment which I have concluded through time as 'someone incompetent to lead--they themselves don't know the job.' But either way, subordinates are chastised for 'not knowing'. Worse, is asking for clarification, the 'so called leader' cannot verbalize clearly what steps are needed to arrive at the end result. I see this day in and day out from the very top of the organization to the ones just above me. "It is men who honor titles: not the other way around." Machiavelli

[@imnotfarting]

Paraphrasing Machiavelli nice...

[@chrislee176]

I like that Jocko says he was aggressive, killing innocent ‘collateral’ people and destroying their families and lives. It brings me closure and finality in not admiring or respecting him and his choice to become a an armed government goon. There are better, more moral, intelligent and inspiring people to listen to and learn from. Ciao, for good.

[@tomschwab3111]

The Army has been doing this for years.

[@EchelonFront]

There are endless great leadership lessons we can learn from our Armed Forces. Most of our leadership lessons we teach here at Echelon Front derive from combat experiences.

[@thundergrace]

HELLO! CAN YOU DEFINE TOXIC PEOPLE! AND PLEASE WHY DID YOU USE THE WORD PSYCHO? Sounds like she was had to run around to get things done...where were her Santa helpers?

[@EchelonFront]

We'll bookmark your question and try to do an entire video on toxic people in the future. As for Jamie Cochran's "psycho" work ethic, she was very default aggressive in addressing Jocko's implied intent. Although Jocko saw her hard work as intense, she felt it was necessary to get the job done and meet her standards. Luckily, now Jamie has a team of hard workers to help her get the job done.

[@ExtraRice365]

The intro music is a little cringe but everything else 👍🏻

[@EchelonFront]

Thanks for the feedback, we appreciate it.

[@michaelguido478]

it sounds like you guys are trying to rebrand ass kissing and maintaining a leaders ability to maintain plausable deniability decreasing lederships accountability and increasing the likelihood of throwing lower level subordinates under the bus. Good leaders are explicit.

[@dawsonpurkett6246]

Good Leaders are definitely explicit. That’s their point. They’re saying most leaders have a default strategy and that you need to explicitly state, if a situation requires you not use the default strategy

[@michaelguido478]

@dawsonpurkett6246 I'm unconvinced. The word implied comes from the same root that the word implicit does. Implicit is an antonym for being explicit....help this blind man see!

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