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Extreme Ownership

Written by: Jocko Willink, Leif Babin
Narrated by: Jocko Willink, Leif Babin
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"These guys are intense. And they bring that same fire to their narration in the audiobook. Listen to these insanely competent SEAL officers tell you exactly how to make a team successful through their firsthand experiences in business and combat." (The Hustle)

An updated edition of the blockbuster best-selling leadership audiobook 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.

Combat, the most intense and dynamic environment imaginable, teaches the toughest leadership lessons, with absolutely everything at stake. Jocko Willink and Leif Babin learned this reality first-hand on the most violent and dangerous battlefield in Iraq. As leaders of SEAL Team Three’s Task Unit Bruiser, their mission was one many thought impossible: help U.S. forces secure Ramadi, a violent, insurgent-held city deemed “all but lost.” In gripping, firsthand 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. Willink and Babin returned home from deployment and instituted SEAL leadership training to pass on their harsh lessons learned in combat to help forge the next generation of SEAL leaders. After leaving the SEAL Teams, they launched a company, Echelon Front, to teach those same leadership principles to leaders in businesses, companies, and organizations across the civilian sector. Since that time, they have trained countless leaders and worked with hundreds of companies in virtually every industry across the U.S. and internationally, teaching them how to develop their own high-performance teams and most effectively lead those teams to dominate their battlefields.

Since it’s release in October 2015, Extreme Ownership has revolutionized leadership development and set a new standard for literature on the subject. Required listening for many of the most successful organizations, it has become an integral part of the official leadership training programs for scores of business teams, military units, and first responders. Detailing the mindset and 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 fulfill their ultimate purpose: lead and win. 

©2015 Jocko Willink and Leif Babin (P)2015 Macmillan Audio

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Leadership principles in practice

This is an amazing book about leadership principles in practice in war and how they apply to business as well. The format of the book, with each chapter detailing the war situation in Ramadi, the leadership Principles involved and application to business.

The authors really connect the dots !!!

And since the audio book is in voice of Jocko Willink and Leif Babin, the authors themselves, it’s made it so much more exciting to hear the book.

One will not need any other leadership book after this one - of course other than The Dichotomy of Leadership!!!

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Great listen

Enjoyable and a good learning experience. Listening to the book in their own voice gave it life. I especially liked the section of each chapter on application to business.

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An amazing Listen

It is really easy to understand in audio format and the content as well as the narration is really well done.

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Very inspiring

It was very inspiring and informative to learn. Dichotomy of leadership really struck a chord with me.

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Good revision of concepts

The concepts in the book are straightforward and repetitive if you've already read other books on leadership. So I didn't learn anything new in that regard. The prolonged description of war situations as anecdotes a the beginning of each chapter gets tiring. The business application of the concept comes at the end of the chapter for a few minutes while the majority of the chapter is dedicated to describing the war situation. Nevertheless, a good revision of leadership concepts.

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awesome

mind blowing . One of the best leadership theme with great examples and real time scenarios

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Leadership Lessons from Actual Leaders!

Lessons from The Most Brutal War Zones applied on daily life! Some massive takeaways like Prioritise and Execute on tasks at hand or Extreme Ownership towards most important tasks and situations are the best lessons one can implement on their daily life.

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Simple & Straightforward!

Extreme Ownership covers the key facets of leadership that are necessary to effectively lead. What I loved the most was, how authors with their anecdotal references from military experience were able to draw parallel with corporate responsibilities.

People should read this book because of the straightforward and simple approach to leadership it advocates.

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a true leadeship book

second chapter on bad leadership and not bad teams is really the eye opener
the sucess of a team depends on the abiltiy to lead the team and not the ability of the team is again and again re-enforced. Definitive read for all.

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great real life examples

Was great listening to real life combat situations and how they map to day to day business.

Must read/Listen for all professionals across the organisation.

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