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

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It’s important not to indicate. People don’t try to show their feelings, they try to hide them.” – Robert De Niro Instead of a junior leader asking if they can do something, they should just be telling you what they are going to do. I’m not the guy who’s afraid of failure. I like to take risks, take the big shot and all that.” – Stephen Curry Application to business: The nationwide company that had multiple branches. Some branches had 20 and some had 3. All sizes only had one manager. They needed to adjust their teams to groups of 4-6 to be more successful.

Principle: every leader must walk a fine line. Just as discipline and freedom are opposing forces that must be balanced, leadership requires finding the equilibrium in the dichotomy of many seemingly contradictory qualities between one extreme and another. Decentralize the planning process. Empower key leaders within the team to analyze possible courses of action. Think about the story of the CTO who wouldn’t accept ownership. The CEO was allowing sub-standard performance from his CTO and his CTO wouldn’t accept ownership. Once people stop making excuses, stop blaming others, and take ownership of everything in their lives, they are compelled to take action to solve their problems.”

You must brief so that the lowest common denominator can understand. Make sure that people can ask questions when they don’t understand what the key parts of the mission are.

Hot damn!” he shouted with excitement. “There’s some muj in that building right there putting up a serious fight!” He pointed to the building across the street, his weapon trained in that dire If someone isn’t doing what you want or need them to do, look in the mirror first and determine what you can do to better enable this. These principles empower those teams to dominate their battlefields by enabling leaders to fulfill their purpose: lead and win.” Where Should You Start? Be the best version of yourself in anything that you do. You don’t have to live anybody else’s story.” – Stephen Curry It’s a leaders job to understand the ‘big picture’ and full scope of any mission. Then relay the necessary information to junior leaders and team members.

Change Solutions

I’ve been a Colt for almost all of my adult life, but I guess in life, and in sports, we all know nothing lasts forever. Times change, circumstances change, and that’s the reality of playing in the NFL.” – Peyton Manning After they changed the bonus plan to something that was simple to understand, production increased immediately. The leader bears all responsibility for the success and failure of any team or organisation. Everything in the leader’s universe must be his or hers. There are no other people to blame. The leader must recognise mistakes and shortcomings, accept responsibility for them, and devise a winning strategy. If a team member is not performing to the level necessary for the team to succeed, the leader must coach and mentor that underperformer.

You learned the two greatest thing in life, never rat on your friends, and always keep your mouth shut.” – Robert De Niro Being able to battle it out. No matter how you do it, you gotta hold your ground at times. Other times you’ve got to compromise. But never a compromise that you can’t live with.” – Robert De Niro The more years I go, the more experience I have, the more that nutrition and eating the right foods is important for recovery and things like that.” – Stephen Curry I can get better. I haven’t reached my ceiling yet on how well I can shoot the basketball.” – Stephen Curry Willink explains that a leader needs to be humble and understand when they were wrong. Owning up to mistakes and establishing a way to right any errors is fundamental to being an effective leader. Leaders need to leave the ego at the door, and their agenda is entirely devoted to their team, they need to forget about themselves as an individual. Willink’s perception of an effective leader is someone who is able to focus purely on their team and the task at hand. LEADERSHIP AND RESPONSIBILITY

VICTORIOUS LEADERS AND PLANNING

The US soldiers needed to understand WHY the Iraqi soldiers had to be included (so that the missions would be allowed by headquarters). They had to believe in the mission. Each game is an opportunity to be on a great stage and be a witness for Christ. When I step on the floor, people should know who I represent, who I believe in.” – Stephen Curry Managing up: Leading up the chain of command requires tactful engagement with the immediate boss (or in military terms, higher headquarters) to obtain the decisions and support necessary to enable your team to accomplish its mission and ultimately win. To do this, a leader must push situational awareness up the chain of command. Anyone who waits for someone else to make a change automatically becomes a follower.” – Peyton Manning There are many concepts in this book that can be applied to leaders of any kind, whether it be a leader in battle, of a sports team, of a business or even of a family. See what you can take away from this and apply into your own leadership role.