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3.94 AVERAGE
3.94 AVERAGE
informative
Very important message and an effective approach to leadership. The writing is a bit heavy-handed, and the "business" side of the stories feel quite unreal and spoon fed, but the over message is driven home pretty well. The idea of "extreme ownership" is quite simple, and some parts feel overly verbose in contrast to that, but - as they also say - simple is not easy, in the full picture it feels relatively well paced.
The heavy war imagery will also make sure, I think, that next time I will be thinking about leadership issues, I will recall Navy SEALs and deadly combat. That should crank up the adrenalin level to get things done.
The heavy war imagery will also make sure, I think, that next time I will be thinking about leadership issues, I will recall Navy SEALs and deadly combat. That should crank up the adrenalin level to get things done.
challenging
informative
medium-paced
While I admire the authors and I am very grateful for their service and sacrifices, I had a very difficult time relating to this book. I just can’t stomach celebrating the loss of human life, ANY human life. And perhaps I don’t understand the reality of what is needed to keep us safe, but I had a hard time getting past the authors’ tone throughout this book. Otherwise, some of the metaphors were good.
the first time I read this book, at the recommendation of my parents, the principles outlined here were so simple and irrefutably logical that they managed to impress themselves on my grumpy fifteen year old character, despite my reluctantance to read the book and my determination not to be affected by it. since it helped me inspite of myself then, I was curious to reread it with a lot less attitude and an open mind now, and I was not disappointed. solid principles, good book and just the refresher I needed.
I really enjoy this book. I just think it was much much much too long. Jacko Willink mentions that he does not write his books to be marketable, true or not, it seems like he is enjoying what he is writing.
I love the concept. It is extremely stoic. There are things we can own, and then there is things we cannot own, and we must work on having extreme ownership with everything that we can possibly control. No excuses.
I love the concept. It is extremely stoic. There are things we can own, and then there is things we cannot own, and we must work on having extreme ownership with everything that we can possibly control. No excuses.
This book is better than I expected it to be. These SEALs have a lot of learned lessons on leadership that they are eager to share in this book, chief among those lessons being the philosophy that you can’t shirk ownership from anything in your reach, the namesake Extreme Ownership.
The challenge to the reader hidden in the pages is to find ways to apply these lessons to their life when in many places they are not in a leadership capacity. In this sense the chapter on leading up and down the chain is most directly valuable, as are some of the more “tactical” chapters on specific strategies. But I believe that with enough thinking any reader in any capacity will find value in this book.
The only clear downside of this book is that the writing is not the best. That’s to be expected though, the authors of this book are navy SEALs, not honed and practiced writers. At times the audience of the book is not clear (are you writing to people who are military enthusiasts, or to hopeful leaders looking to learn and grow?), although the deep emotion behind the military stories remains powerful.
The challenge to the reader hidden in the pages is to find ways to apply these lessons to their life when in many places they are not in a leadership capacity. In this sense the chapter on leading up and down the chain is most directly valuable, as are some of the more “tactical” chapters on specific strategies. But I believe that with enough thinking any reader in any capacity will find value in this book.
The only clear downside of this book is that the writing is not the best. That’s to be expected though, the authors of this book are navy SEALs, not honed and practiced writers. At times the audience of the book is not clear (are you writing to people who are military enthusiasts, or to hopeful leaders looking to learn and grow?), although the deep emotion behind the military stories remains powerful.
informative
inspiring
tense
fast-paced
If you could give a book 0 stars, that would be my rating. Great read if you’d like examples of all of our failures in the Iraq war, terrible read otherwise.
adventurous
informative
inspiring
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Great lessons for leaders and people in general. I wish the delivery was better.