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About Extreme Ownership Book
An updated edition of the blockbuster bestselling leadership book that took America and the world by storm, two U.S. Navy SEAL officers who led the most highly decorated special operations unit of the Iraq War demonstrate how to apply powerful leadership principles from the battlefield to business and life.
Sent to the most violent battlefield in Iraq, Jocko Willink and Leif Babin’s SEAL task unit faced a seemingly impossible mission: help U.S. forces secure Ramadi, a city deemed “all but lost.” In gripping firsthand accounts of heroism, tragic loss, and hard-won victories in SEAL Team Three’s Task Unit Bruiser, they learned that leadership—at every level—is the most important factor in whether a team succeeds or fails.
Willink and Babin returned home from deployment and instituted SEAL leadership training that helped forge the next generation of SEAL leaders. After departing the SEAL Teams, they launched Echelon Front, a company that teaches these same leadership principles to businesses and organizations. From promising startups to Fortune 500 companies, Babin and Willink have helped scores of clients across a broad range of industries build their own high-performance teams and dominate their battlefields.
Now, detailing the mind-set and principles that enable SEAL units to accomplish the most difficult missions in combat, Extreme Ownership shows how to apply them to any team, family or organization. Each chapter focuses on a specific topic such as Cover and Move, Decentralized Command, and Leading Up the Chain, explaining what they are, why they are important, and how to implement them in any leadership environment.
A compelling narrative with powerful instruction and direct application, Extreme Ownership revolutionizes business management and challenges leaders everywhere to fulfill their ultimate purpose: lead and win.
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"Instead of letting the situation dictate our decisions, we must dictate the situation."
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1. Seize accountability, don't avoid it
When something goes wrong, you should seek responsibility instead of avoiding it. You, as the leader, need to figure out what you can do to correct for the team.
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2. Standards are what you tolerate
As the leader, it is your fault when your team members under-performed because you accepted and tolerated it. Not standing for less than excellent performance is more important than setting lofty standards.
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Extreme Ownership includes practical leadership advice from two Navy SEALs on staying strong, disciplined, and level-headed in high-stake situations.
Taking ownership to achieve success
The most successful men and women in the civilian world practice extreme ownership.
The principles of extreme ownership are simple but not easy. Taking ownership of mistakes and failures is hard, but it is key to learning, developing solutions and ultimate success.
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Discipline is the pathway to freedom.
JOCKO WILLINK
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Extreme Ownership
A true leader takes ownership of everything in his domain. This includes the outcome and everything that affects it.
A true leader doesn’t find excuses or blame others. Instead, he puts his ego aside, takes full responsibility for the outcome and considers what he should do differently. When you demand extreme ownership of yourself and others, your example will inspire others to follow.
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Who is responsible ???
Complications management epistle
- We have generally thought in our life that circumstances are build by luck, favour and support.
- Totally wrong it has been build and nourished by us.🤔
- The simplest path is to stay with the complications and just accept it. Only you are the responsible person for your happening.
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Attributes of leadership
- Any thing which involves you is done by you.
- People under your command do right thing because of you & wrong things because of you.
- Most difficult part of any project is the self accountability of leader.
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I struggle with self improvement. It's tough to get that ball rolling. I need all the help I can get and this book is critical in helping that process.
Refreshing take on accountability
A common theme to day is that if something goes wrong, you figure out who offended you, or who caused the problem, or what outside force caused this thing to happen and hold THEM accountable. This book is a refreshingly honest and direct instruction manual on how to look at yourself and how YOU could have done something differently to get a better outcome. We can't control others, how about we all figure out how to control ourselves and hold ourselves accountable??
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