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

Reviews

VIT

The rest fall into a more limited use category - in other words, they might be useful, but you have to carefully evaluate your own situation before applying blindly. Furthermore, though this commitment to the safety of Iraqis was carried out at the individual level, its implementation was institutional - saying as much of the individual troops as it does of the military as a whole. I now know of situations where American troops led operations in which they threw themselves at enemy fire just to save the very Iraqi forces who had often desserted them and shot at their American brothers. The lesson to keep the egos in check means all the egos, not just the leaders.

Yusuf Zahri

I heard about this book because Tim Ferris talks about Jocko in Titans and it called my attention the personality and the ideas that Jocko shared. I would even go as far as saying that any organisation - be it governmental, sporting, entrepreneurial or otherwise - that implements the principles of this book would surely see marked improvements in all but the most exceptional cases. As a combat veteran (with the scars to prove it) and someone in business now, I looked forward to reading the book. " The lesson is that good leaders have the loyalty of their subordinates, and they will sacrifice their own food to feed the leaders.

Philippe Gnansounou

" In both business and in combat, I found that nearly every organization has personnel who are simply unsuited to doing some of the hard jobs required. Navy Seal. In all honesty this book has a fantastic message especially if you're looking for self improvement.

Joaquin

How it's helped me:Although the "application to business" section in each chapter would seem to indicate that the book is primarily pitched to the business world, I have found equal - if not superior - use of its principles in my own personal life. All of the proffered concepts have the potential to be useful, some of them are "truer" than others.

Michael

The reality was that there was a very complex society with a greatly interdependent economy that the Bath Party held together with charisma and complicated machinations. " In the book, Simon says, "leaders might go hungry, but they won't. Having grown up during the height of the disenchantment with the Iraq war, I became used to negative reports of misconduct by US troops in the media and accepted a general view of them as a self-appointed, shoot-from-the-hip Wild West cowboy force.