matttj17 's review for:

Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win by Leif Babin, Jocko Willink

4.0

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To be completely transparent: I was required to read this book for an internship, and I was not looking forward to it. The mindset I had going in was very uninterested and skeptical. But in actually reading this, I was actually very surprised. This book had a lot of truly incredible leadership principles that genuinely surprised me. The leadership strategies in this are extremely wise and effective, to the point that I fully intend to implement them in my own leadership. I highly recommend this to anyone. The only thing keeping this from 5 stars is the fact that I did have some reservations about its glorification of war in some parts, particularly the U.S. involvement in Iraq. Other than that nitpick, this is definitely worth the read for anyone.