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

Wed, 24 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000

When a team fails, look at the leader. That’s the whole spine of Extreme Ownership, drawn from Jocko Willink and Leif Babin’s years leading Navy SEALs in the brutal fighting around Ramadi. The instinct after a failure is to spread the blame—bad luck, a weak subordinate, vague orders from above. Willink and Babin argue that this reflex is exactly what keeps you stuck. The moment you push failure outside yourself, you give away any power to fix it. Owning everything, including the things that weren’t obviously your fault, is what lets you demand accountability from everyone else.

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