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

was nothing out of the ordinary. It had been a still and clear evening until the distant firefight lit up the nig ...

hospital in Germany, those hopes were dashed when we learned Ryan would never see again: he was blind. ...

enemy was still capable, deadly, and determined to fight back for control of the city. What lasting impact di ...

same. The true sacrifices endured by the troops who fought this war were far beyond anything that most Ame ...

home alive; it meant more Iraqi soldiers and police lived to fight another day; and it meant more ...

combat outpost in enemy territory and take those neighborhoods back. When Jocko showed me the slide he ha ...

who was out working on his weapons and gear, conducting maintenance on our vehicles, or building demolition cha ...

an entry door, coordination with supporting aircraft, managing an assault force of Iraqi soldiers—those ...

Any good leader is immersed in the planning and execution of tasks, projects, and operations to move the t ...

what you need them to do, you first have to look at yourself. Rather than blame them for not seeing ...

Task Unit Bruiser was located in Ramadi, the CO and his staff were some thirty miles to the east in Falluja ...

on the ground here, we (Charlie Platoon and our brethren in Delta Platoon) activated our QRF m ...

and his staff weren’t bad guys out to make our lives harder and stifle our operations. They were good peop ...

beyond my platoon and task unit. I needed to understand how to lead up the chain of command and why it was i ...

This contradicted popular thinking. Typically, the frontline troops wanted senior leaders as far away ...

questions, our CO and his staff were working hard to get the information they needed so that they could ...

PRINCIPLE: LEADING UP THE CHAIN If your boss isn’t making a decision in a timely manner or providing nece ...

questions up the chain. Then, once understood, you can pass that understanding down to your ...

I was on a visit to a client company’s field leadership team, the frontline troops that executed the ...

storyboard brief with photographs, and a detailed multipage operational summary. If we killed any bad guys ...