Extreme Ownership (how U.s. Navy Seals Lead And Win)

By (author) Willink Jocko; By (author) Babin Leif
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The New York Times number one bestseller is a groundbreaking and no-nonsense book on leadership, using vividly described combat experiences to illustrate core principles that apply in every field.
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The blockbuster bestselling leadership book that took America and the world by storm.

Jocko Willink and Leif Babin are ex US Navy SEAL officers who led the most highly decorated special forces unit of the Iraq War. Now they demonstrate how to apply powerful leadership principles from the battlefield to business and life.

Combat teaches the toughest leadership lessons, with absolutely everything at stake. Jocko Willink and Leif Babin learned this reality first-hand in Iraq. As leaders of SEAL Team Three’s Task Unit Bruiser, their mission was one many thought impossible: help US forces secure Ramadi, a violent, insurgent-held city deemed ‘all but lost’. In gripping, first-hand accounts of heroism, tragic loss and hard-won victories, they learned that leadership – at every level – is the most important factor in whether a team succeeds or fails.

Today Willink and Babin train leaders and work with hundreds of companies in virtually every industry across the US and internationally, teaching them how to develop their own high-performance teams. Detailing the resilient mindset and total focus principles that enable SEAL units to accomplish the most difficult combat missions, Extreme Ownership demonstrates how to apply them to any team or organization, in any leadership environment.

A compelling narrative with powerful instruction and direct application, Extreme Ownership challenges leaders everywhere to fulfil their ultimate purpose: lead and win.

The first book in the phenomenally successful Extreme Ownership series.

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Even if you just read the intro and chapters one, six and twelve, even if you just do that, the book is worth many times the price
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One of the best books on leadership I''ve ever read and a tremendous war story book as well.
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Finally, a leadership book that actually demonstrates how to truly lead. Riveting, engaging, and free from the usual cliché platitudes, this book is strikingly impactful and will dramatically improve leaders of all types.
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This book made me a better leader and enabled my entire team step up our game!
Biographical note:

JOCKO WILLINK was a Navy SEAL for twenty years, rising through the ranks to become commander of Task Unit Bruiser, the most decorated Special Operations unit of the Iraq War. After retiring, Willink continued on the disciplined path of success, co-founding Echelon Front, a premier leadership and management consulting company, writing the number one New York Times bestsellers Extreme Ownership; Leadership Strategy and Tactics; Discipline Equals Freedom; and The Way of the Warrior Kid children’s series. He created and hosts the top-rated podcast Jocko Podcast, and is also a principal at several highly successful companies, including JOCKO FUEL and Origin USA.

LEIF BABIN served nine years as a Navy SEAL. He was in combat in Iraq during the Battle of Ramadi, a conflict that resulted in numerous medals for his efforts. After his tours, Babin served as a Navy SEAL instructor before forming Echelon Front with Jocko Willink, a leadership training group that uses the lessons and expertise the pair learned as SEALs to train leaders beyond the military. He is the co-author of the number one New York Times bestseller Extreme Ownership. Babin lives in New York.