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

3.0

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I respect these two authors and their approach to transferring lessons/disciplines they learned in the military to civilian businesses and experiences. However, I struggled with this a little bit. While I still learned some good tidbits, a lot of it was just not quite applicable to my current life and work circumstances. It did highlight a lot of ways that my bosses and leadership at my workplace fall short (oop) but there wasn’t much to do as employees to stop that. Much of it needs to come from the bosses themselves. It also felt quite repetitive at times and the ending seemed abrupt.
If I ever find myself in a leadership role, I will definitely return to this book though because I think its are very valuable.