Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win

The plan had been perfectly executed. The first clue the bad guys had that SEALs were there was when ...

officer informs you there are IEDs buried in the yard and bunkered machine gun positions in th ...

coming until it was too late. Therefore, we didn’t need to replan the operation. We were ready. And as a ...

on the expertise of those in the best position to provide the most accurate and up-to-date information. Leader ...

ability to effectively execute the plan radically decreases. Thus, leaders must ask questions of their troops, ...

lives and future mission success depend on it. A post-operational debrief examines all phases of an operation ...

—Empower key leaders within the team to analyze possible courses of action. • Determine a specific course of ...

The emerging-markets VP was an impressive leader and a key driver of the company’s overall success. Like a g ...

that military mission planning was needless and burdensome,” I told them. “But I was wrong. Establ ...

The trouble was, as a new SEAL officer in training, The PLO is for the boys concept simply hadn’t held true ...

PowerPoint slides. In actual practice, we had only a few hours to plan for our training exercises, so the ...

standard planning process used by small units in the rest of the military. He expected us to own it—Ext ...

areas. It was heavy on PowerPoint slides, overly complex, and not explicitly clear on the different ...

hand sketches and manning lists on dry-erase boards. We had the troops brief the parts they were planning ...

arrived, our platoons finished their portions of the plan and we talked through them. As Jocko had predi ...

Shortly thereafter, we received word that Task Unit Bruiser had been chosen to deploy to Iraq. It was the ...

manager would certainly benefit from such a system. “You could use a planning procedure like we had, ...

clarification, and brought up points that had been glossed over or neglected and why they were ...

Command and Control from the high ground: Jocko (right) and SEAL senior enlisted advisor (left) overlook the ...

CHAPTER 10 Leading Up and Down the Chain of Command Leif Babin CAMP MARC LEE, RAMADI, IRAQ: LEADING DOWN ...