“On any team, in any organization, all responsibility for success and failure rests with the leader. The leader must own everything in his or her world. There is no one else to blame. The leader must acknowledge mistakes and admit failures, take ownership of them, and develop a plan to win.”
Combat, the most intense and dynamic environment imaginable, teaches the toughest leadership lessons, with absolutely everything at stake. Detailing the mindset and principles that enable SEAL units to accomplish the most difficult combat missions. ‘Extreme Ownership’ demonstrates how to apply them to any team or organization, in any leadership environment. A compelling narrative with powerful instruction and direct application. ‘Extreme Ownership’ challenges leaders everywhere to fulfill their ultimate purpose: lead and win.
Book Authors Jocko Willink and Leif Babin learned this reality first-hand on the most violent and dangerous battlefield in Iraq. As leaders of SEAL Team Three’s Task Unit Bruiser, their mission was one many thought impossible: help U.S. forces secure Ramadi, a violent, insurgent-held city deemed “all but lost.” In gripping, firsthand accounts of heroism, tragic loss, and hard-won victories, they learned that leadership. At every level that is the most important factor in whether a team succeeds or fails.
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Willink and Babin returned home from deployment and instituted SEAL leadership training to pass on their harsh lessons learned in combat to help forge the next generation of SEAL leaders. After leaving the SEAL Teams, they launched a company, Echelon Front. To teach those same leadership principles to leaders in businesses, companies, and organizations across the civilian sector. Since that time, they have trained countless leaders and worked with hundreds of companies in virtually every industry across the U.S. and internationally. Teaching them how to develop their own high-performance teams and most effectively lead those teams to dominate their battlefields.
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Since it’s release in October 2015, ‘Extreme Ownership’ has revolutionized leadership development and set a new standard for literature on the subject. Required listening for many of the most successful organizations. It has overall become an integral part of the official leadership training programs for scores of business teams, military units, and first responders.
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Some Quotes From ‘Extreme Ownership’
“It’s not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate.”
“Implementing Extreme Ownership requires checking your ego and operating with a high degree of humility. Admitting mistakes, taking ownership, and developing a plan to overcome challenges are integral to any successful team.”
“Prioritize your problems and take care of them one at a time, the highest priority first. Don’t try to do everything at once or you won’t be successful.” I explained how a leader who tries to take on too many problems simultaneously will likely fail at them all.”
“Don’t fight stress. Embrace it. Turn it on itself. Use it to make yourself sharper and more alert. Use it to make you think and learn and get better and smarter and more effective. Use the stress to make you a better you.”
“Because emotion and logic will both reach their limitations. And when one fails, you need to rely on the other. When it just doesn’t make any logical sense to go on, that’s when you use your emotion, your anger, your frustration, your fear, to push further, to push you to say one thing: I don’t stop.”