Extreme Ownership
Leaders must take full responsibility for team outcomes, regardless of external circumstances. This core principle is called
What is Extreme Ownership?
In contrast to leadership styles that control behavior through authority and compliance, this leadership model focuses on empowering people through trust, purpose, and connection.
What is Trust and Inspire?
According to Clay Scroggins, leadership isn’t about authority or titles—it’s about this.
What is influence?
This businessman founded the company that would eventually become NACCO Industries in 1913.
Who is Frank E. Taplin?
According to the Hierarchy of Controls, this form of protection is considered the last line of defense when other hazard controls—like elimination or engineering—aren’t feasible.
What is personal protective equipment (PPE)?
“Cover and move” is a principle that emphasizes this key leadership behavior.
What is teamwork or mutual support?
According to the Authors, the outdated leadership style that relies on hierarchy, compliance, and micromanagement is known by this three-word term.
What is Command and Control?
Scroggins says the most important person you’ll ever learn to lead is this one.
What is yourself?
This was the original name of the company that would eventually become North American Coal Corporation and later NACCO Industries.
What is The Cleveland & Western Coal Company?
Strong safety cultures begin each shift with this brief meeting or review, used to highlight hazards and reinforce expectations.
What is a toolbox meeting?
When a mission or instruction isn’t clear, it’s the leader’s job to do this before proceeding.
What is ask questions or clarify the mission?
Trust and Inspire leaders build trust by demonstrating character, competence, and this essential leadership trait.
What is credibility?
Clay Scroggins teaches that leaders without formal authority can create momentum by combining the ability to see what could be with action-oriented quality. These two qualities are referred to as this.
What are vision and initiative?
NACCO exited underground mining and shifted its focus to large-scale surface operations during this time period.
What is the late 1980s?
In a workplace with strong psychological safety, employees feel comfortable doing this when something seems off—without fear of retaliation.
What is reporting a hazard or stopping work?
Leaders empower their teams by allowing others to lead, take ownership, and make decisions—this leadership principle ensures teams are prepared to act without constant direction.
What is decentralized command?
Covey teaches that every person has greatness inside of them. A Trust and Inspire leader's job is to do this with that greatness.
What is unleash or ignite it?
Scroggins emphasizes the importance of supporting leadership decisions—even when you don’t agree—as part of this leadership practice.
What is healthy submission?
NACCO expanded its operations into the aggregates and industrial minerals sectors with the creation of North American Mining in this year.
What is 1994?
This proactive process helps identify, evaluate, and reduce risks before starting a task, and it's a cornerstone of injury prevention.
What is a hazard assessment or job safety analysis (JSA)?
According to the book, this internal obstacle often prevents leaders from taking responsibility and hinders effective teamwork.
What is unchecked or out-of-control ego?
In Trust and Inspire, leaders earn influence not through position or power, but by consistently practicing these three key stewardships:
What is modeling, trusting, and inspiring?
In the book, one key behavior for non-positional leaders is “reject passivity.” Another is this, which involves pushing against comfortable norms to spark positive change.
What is challenge the status quo?
NACCO was listed on the New York Stock Exchange in this year, a milestone that marked its national prominence.
What is 1961?
In a strong safety culture, workers aren’t just expected to follow rules—they're empowered to make decisions that prevent harm. This concept is often summed up by encouraging every worker to do this, even without a supervisor present.
What is taking ownership of safety or acting as a safety leader?