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3.94 AVERAGE
3.94 AVERAGE
There is good stuff in here, but I was not blown away by the writing style.
adventurous
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I found this quite boring. A lot of anecdotes that I didn't connect with that delivered what felt like a very surface level insight into motivation. I simply didn't resonate with this book.
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inspiring
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challenging
informative
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I decided to not finish this book at 68% of the way through, which was a tough decision. However, I hated reading about war zones, especially for the war the authors reference. I think that there were definitely some good leadership lessons, although they were fairly simple. The main premise is important, to always take ownership when you are a leader. I do appreciate that and thought it was an important concept and well explained in the book. I would not recommend this book.
Take a 12-slide Powerpoint presentation.
Wrap each slide in an awe-inspiring story about T.U.B. (Task Unit Bruiser)
Infer a lesson learnt from that story (or were the stories retrofit into the lessons "to be" learnt?)
Weakly couple it with a corporate-life scenario.
There... now you have a 275 page book!
Option 1: (Fastest) Just read the table of contents and then take ownership of everything.
Option 2: In addition to Option 1, read the "Principle" and "Apply to Business" sections of each chapter.
Option 3: (Slowest) If it interests you, read the stories of active duty that precede the Principle learnt. I felt that this section was filled with a lot of egotistical condescension!
Wrap each slide in an awe-inspiring story about T.U.B. (Task Unit Bruiser)
Infer a lesson learnt from that story (or were the stories retrofit into the lessons "to be" learnt?)
Weakly couple it with a corporate-life scenario.
There... now you have a 275 page book!
Option 1: (Fastest) Just read the table of contents and then take ownership of everything.
Option 2: In addition to Option 1, read the "Principle" and "Apply to Business" sections of each chapter.
Option 3: (Slowest) If it interests you, read the stories of active duty that precede the Principle learnt. I felt that this section was filled with a lot of egotistical condescension!
This was a really good book! I loved the emphasis on leadership and taking ownership of what goes wrong in our lives and not blaming others for things we influence. I’m not into business and the applications were all business stuff, but I can think of a lot of applications in my own life. I loved it.
2.5 stars, rounded to 3 stars. While the principles are useful, this is not an engaging book for non-military folks. At least 50% of the book is military storytelling, and at least 25% of that is not essential to the points being made.
Really trodding the same path as a TON of other books like this.