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

responsible for receiving orders from the instructors and briefing, directing, and leading the other s ...

crew leaders report!” The boat crew leaders left their boats and ran to take position, forming a smart ...

some distance, accusing the others of not doing their part. Each boat crew member focused on his own ind ...

experienced and highly respected noncommissioned officer of the SEAL instructor cadre, took a keen interest in ...

dared not try to argue the point with the instructor. With no choice, he accepted the challenging assignment w ...

from last place to first. The boat crew members had begun to work together as a team, an ...

struggled to perform, until I figured out that I had to put myself in the most difficult position at ...

understand and implement to enable them to most effectively lead a high-performance team. Leaders must ac ...

SEAL warrior with an amazing sense of humor that kept us laughing through the darkest of times. He was sho ...

hardly contain his excitement. But just when I thought that the men of Charlie Platoon and Task Unit ...

utmost to pass onto them everything I wish someone had taught me prior to leading in combat. In the final ...

bad officers.”^3 This captures the essence of what Extreme Ownership is all about. This is a difficult a ...

can throw any number of circumstances in the way of any business or team, and every team must have junio ...

challenges of his company and industry, I spent some time with the CEO in discussions via phone, visited his ...

company’s senior executive team. The CTO refused to take ownership of mistakes or acknowledge that his team ...

exhaustion, misery, and individual pain and suffering. Though the instructors demanded that they do ...

“Extreme Ownership—good leadership—is contagious,” I answered. “Boat Crew Two’s original leader had i ...

making the right decisions.” “If you aren’t winning,” I responded, “then you aren’t making the right decisions.” ...

leaders took on board this concept of Extreme Ownership,” I replied. “You have one major issue, though.” “L ...

the CTO had barged into his office and warned that the concept of Extreme Ownership had “neg ...