Tuesday, October 4, 2016

Extreme Ownership - reading

Finished "Extreme Ownership - How U.S. Navy Seals Lead and Win" by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin. This was the first actual leadership book I feel like I got a lot out of. Other leadership books tell you all about how "leaders are supposed to lead, so get out there and lead!" and all that, but this book spells out, in clear language, steps to take to improve your leadership abilities, and why you would take them. The format was basically a three-phase discussion of leadership principles in each chapter: first you get a war story, then a description of a leadership principle, and finally an application to business.

I've already decided I need to re-read this -- maybe even more than once -- simply to underscore the lessons it contains, and to focus on incorporating the lessons it teaches both at work and at home.

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