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Lead and win.Combat is the most intense environment imaginable; it teaches the toughest leadership lessons with absolutely everything at stake. In Extreme Ownership, Jocko Willink and Leif Babin share the hard-won lessons they learned on the violent battlefields of Iraq. As leaders of SEAL Team Three’s Task Unit Bruiser, they secured Ramadi, a city deemed "all but lost". Through gripping, first-hand accounts of heroism, tragic loss, and hard-won victories, they learned that leadership – at every level – is the single most important factor in whether a team succeeds or fails.Upon returning from deployment, Willink and Babin instituted SEAL leadership training to pass on these harsh lessons of self-discipline, mental toughness, and resilience to the next generation of SEAL leaders. In their work with civilians, they have trained countless leaders and worked with hundreds of companies across virtually every industry, teaching them how to develop high-performance teams and lead them to victory.Extreme Ownership has revolutionized leadership development and set a new standard for the genre. Required reading for many of the world's most successful organisations, it details the resilient mindset and total focus principles that enable SEAL units to accomplish the most difficult combat missions.

The blockbuster bestselling leadership book that took America and the world by storm.Jocko Willink and Leif Babin are ex US Navy SEAL officers who led the most highly decorated special forces unit of the Iraq War. Now they demonstrate how to apply powerful leadership principles from the battlefield to business and life.Combat teaches the toughest leadership lessons, with absolutely everything at stake. Jocko Willink and Leif Babin learned this reality first-hand in Iraq. As leaders of SEAL Team Three’s Task Unit Bruiser, their mission was one many thought impossible: help US forces secure Ramadi, a violent, insurgent-held city deemed ‘all but lost’. In gripping, first-hand 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.Today Willink and Babin train leaders and work with hundreds of companies in virtually every industry across the US and internationally, teaching them how to develop their own high-performance teams. Detailing the resilient mindset and total focus 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 fulfil their ultimate purpose: lead and win.The first book in the phenomenally successful Extreme Ownership series.

Learning to find balance will lead you to victory.Every leader must be ready and willing to take charge, to make hard, crucial calls for the good of the team and the mission. Something much more difficult to understand is that, in order to be a good leader, one must also be a good follower. This is a dichotomy; a Dichotomy of Leadership. It is, as authors Jocko Willink and Leif Babin wrote in their bestselling first book Extreme Ownership, 'Simple, Not Easy'.Now, in The Dichotomy of Leadership, the authors provide the insight and awareness necessary for leaders to understand when to lead and when to follow, when to focus and when to detach, when to tighten the reins and when to let the team run, when to aggressively manoeuvre and when to be prudent. The life-changing guidance is essential reading for every leader and every team. Understanding how to maintain balance enables leaders to most effectively lead, accomplish their mission and achieve the ultimate goal of every team: Victory.The second book in the phenomenally successful Extreme Ownership series.