
It provides the reader with Jocko and Leif's formula for success: the mindset and guiding principles that enable SEAL combat units to achieve extraordinary results. Now they teach these same leadership principles to companies throughout the business world that want to build their own high-performance, winning teams.Įxtreme Ownership explains the SEAL leadership concepts crucial to accomplishing the most difficult missions in combat and how to apply them to any group, team, or organization. Through those difficult months of sustained combat, Jocko, Leif and their SEAL brothers learned that leadership - at every level - is the most important thing on the battlefield. Jocko and Leif served together in SEAL Task Unit Bruiser, the most highly decorated Special Operations unit from the war in Iraq. In Extreme Ownership, Jocko Willink and Leif Babin share hard-hitting, Navy SEAL combat stories that translate into lessons for business and life. Victory cannot be achieved without leadership, which is why we say leadership is the most important thing on the battlefield, the most important thing in business, and the most important thing in life.An updated edition of the blockbuster leadership book that took America and the world by storm. Without leadership, nothing happens, and with bad leadership, the wrong things happen. So, when we talk about leaders, no matter where you are in the hierarchy of your organization, we are talking about YOU. It was leadership at every level that brought victory in the Battle of Ramadi, and it is leadership at every level that brings success to any company or team.

We are talking about everyone -everyone is a leader-even the front-line worker who takes ownership of their part of the mission and executes.

We are not only talking about leaders that are in charge of 50 people or 5. We are not only talking about leaders in charge of 5,000 or 500 people. When we talk about leaders, we are not only talking about senior leaders. While equipment, weaponry, intelligence, tactics, and strategy play a role, leadership is the single greatest factor in determining whether a team succeeds or fails. Leadership is the most important thing on the battlefield.
