In Extreme Ownership, Jocko Willink and Leif Babin share hard-hitting, Navy SEAL combat stories that translate into lessons for business and life. With riveting first-hand accounts of making high-pressure decisions as Navy SEAL battlefield leaders, this book is equally gripping for leaders who seek to dominate other arenas. Jocko and Leif served together in SEAL Task Unit Bruiser, the most highly decorated Special Operations unit from the war in Iraq. Their efforts contributed to the historic triumph for U.S. forces in Ramadi. Through those difficult months of sustained combat, Jocko, Leif and their SEAL brothers learned that leadership–at every level–is the most important thing on the battlefield. They started Echelon Front to teach these same leadership principles to companies across industries throughout the business world that want to build their own high-performance, winning teams.
This audiobook explains the SEAL leadership concepts crucial to accomplishing the most difficult missions in combat and how to apply them to any group, team, or organization. It provides the reader with Jocko and Leif’s formula for success: the mindset and guiding principles that enable SEAL combat units to achieve extraordinary results. It demonstrates how to apply these directly to business and life to likewise achieve victory.
Solid breakdown of high stress leadership fundamentals Written by ex-Navy SEAL officers Jocko Willink and Leif Babin (who now serve as corporate leadership trainers) this volume covers the fundamental principles of battlefield leadership and how these elemental qualities apply to civilian enterprises and such. The title of the book – ‘Extreme Ownership’ perfectly crystallizes Willink and Babin’s philosophy on leadership where anyone serving in such a capacity must take full responsibility for any operational or performance shortcomings of the team…
Excellent Book on Leadership There are thousands of leadership books out there, and most of them are decent, value added, and … redundant. For the most part they all regurgitate the same information. This book is better than most because it does a nice job of weaving in military leadership models that have been honed over hundreds of scenarios. The book is structured well and each section contains the following: first is an interesting and detailed account of a US Navy Seals combat engagement. The story is…
Insightful, but also very restrained. Extreme Ownership is written by two former Navy SEALs, Jocko Willink and Leif Babin, who now head a leadership training company. Both men are pretty hardcore, I must admit. The experiences they share in this book are intense and eye-opening–not to mention unique. There aren’t many books out there that give such detailed glimpses into the lives of SEALs in action.Â