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

a blue-on-blue. I opened an e-mail from my commanding officer (CO) that went straight to the point. It ...

Within Task Unit Bruiser—my own SEAL troop—similar mistakes had been made. The specific location of the ...

been with our sniper team when they engaged the Iraqi soldier. I hadn’t been controlling the rogue e ...

ready to explain what they had done wrong and how it had contributed to the failure. But I had heard enoug ...

The U.S. Army and U.S. Marine conventional commanders took the debrief points as lessons learned and ...

happen. When they did, we, the training cadre, explained how to avoid them. But more important, the commande ...

for explaining the strategic mission, developing the tactics, and securing the training and resources to en ...

Extreme Ownership, junior leaders take charge of their smaller teams and their piece of the mission. Effic ...

and coaching no matter how constructive, I chose to take a more indirect approach. “Maybe not so much h ...

manufacturing process, the pushback was universal and straight from the classic mantra of antichange: “We have ...

I listened patiently. “The plant managers, the distribution and sales teams don’t fully support the plan,” ...

occurrence that happens out there. It is just impossible. But let me tell you something: when things went wro ...

situation here,” I continued. “Your people don’t need to be fired. They need to be led.” “So what am I ...

their troops, their subordinate leaders, or the scenario. They blamed the SEAL training instructor staff; ...

“They must have respected that,” the VP acknowledged. “Exactly. They see Extreme Ownership in their leader ...

ego aside, and take ownership for the company’s failure here. The board members will be impressed with what ...

“Let’s get it on.” A SEAL turret gunner looks across his M2 .50-caliber heavy machine gun out Ogden Gate ...

CHAPTER 2 No Bad Teams, Only Bad Leaders Leif Babin CORONADO, CALIFORNIA: BASIC UNDERWATER DEMOLITION/SEAL TRAINING ...

to BUD/S with every intention of graduating. And yet within the first forty-eight hours of Hell Week, most ...

students to the test. They were especially skilled at weeding out those who don’t have what it takes to ...