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• Paperback : 352 pages
• ISBN-13 : 978-1760558208
• Dimensions : 14.9 x 2.6 x 23.2 cm
• ISBN-10 : 1760558206
• Publisher : Macmillan Australia (30 January 2018)
• Language: : English

• Best Sellers Rank: 215 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • 24 in Business Leadership (Books)

• Customer Reviews:
  4.8 out of 5 stars 10,316 ratings

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Highly decorated Navy SEALs, now successful businessmen, show readers how to lead and win in business and in life with principles learned on the battlefield.

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Highly decorated Navy SEALs, now successful businessmen, show readers how to lead and win in business and in life with principles learned on the battlefield.

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Jocko Willink and Leif Babin served as U.S. Navy SEAL officers in the toughest urban combat mission in the history of the SEAL teams. Their unit remains the most highly decorated special operations unit in the Iraq war. After returning, Babin and Willink built advanced Navy SEAL leadership training for the next generation of SEALs. With lessons learned from the battlefield they formed Echelon Front, a leadership training company, that teaches others to build and lead their own winning teams.

About the Author

Leif Babin is a decorated former Navy SEAL officer, author and co-founder of Echelon Front, where he serves as leadership instructor, speaker, and executive coach.

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Mark M

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Book on Leadership that I’ve Ever Read

Reviewed in Australia on 30 December 2019

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This book has heavily influenced the way I lead my team and live my life. It lays out the key principles for becoming a successful leader. Whether you are leading a multimillion dollar company, a small team, a family or just yourself, everyone will get something out of this book.

I read a lot and this book is one of the best I’ve come across. I couldn’t recommend more highly.

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Robert D. Crane

5.0 out of 5 stars It doesn't means that the process will be easy or simple

Reviewed in Australia on 3 January 2016

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Leadership requires ownership. It requires the ownership of everything, even what may seem outside your direct control. As this book details, extreme ownership means stepping up and take responsibility for the actions of those that you lead and continually working with your team to improve. When your team wins, everyone wins.

Leadership is not a talent, it is a skill. This means that it can be learned and taught. It doesn't means that the process will be easy or simple, it means that, for those who desire the responsibility of command, the lessons are there to be learned and this book is a great place to understand what it truly means to lead, in good times and in bad and how the skills of leadership are developed through discipline, experience and always seeking to improve. Success is always guaranteed but the hard work required for that guarantee is the choice of the individual.

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Steven Pelly

4.0 out of 5 stars A great introduction to the subject

Reviewed in Australia on 8 September 2018

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A well written presentation of some key concepts. The examples are strong, both military and business.

I did not give a 5th star bacause I felt this text did not go deep enough into the concepts. At times it began to feel, by the end of a chapter, a little like an infomercial, with the key tag line repeated often but not really digging deeper.

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Darren Rathbone

5.0 out of 5 stars Great leadership

Reviewed in Australia on 6 May 2017

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This is one of the best books on leadership I have come across. The examples of decision making in the extreme circumstances of battle drive home the underlying principle of taking personal ownership of your situation whatever it might be.

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Bryan

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing book

Reviewed in Australia on 1 February 2020

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Jocko Willink is a machine. This book with Leif Babin is sensational. The way it’s put together with real world combat scenarios and the lessons learned, then principle explained and it’s application to a business scenario helps the points stick. So happy I picked this up.

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Tim R

5.0 out of 5 stars Timeless leadership principles

Reviewed in Australia on 18 April 2018

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The authors do a fantastic job of translating leadership principles, forged in combat, into practical, understandable lessons to apply in business and in life. Also highly recommend the Jocko Podcast for continued discussion of these principles. Great book!

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Richard Williamson

1.0 out of 5 stars Extreme Letdown

Reviewed in Australia on 14 September 2020

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Unimaginative. Basic. If Jocko had any 'Exteme Ownership' he should refund my money. If you are lost and looking for leadership, disregard this Snake Oil Salesmen and look at other ex-military authors like Pete Blaber's "The Men the Mission and Me"

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george

5.0 out of 5 stars This book is GOOD.

Reviewed in Australia on 6 November 2020

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If I didn’t enjoy this book, who’s fault would it be? It’d be mine. That’s extreme ownership. In saying that I did enjoy this book, who can I thank? Me. That’s extreme ownership. Cheers Jocko.

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Ron

2.0 out of 5 stars I wish it was less military gibberish

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 December 2018

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This book was such a letdown. The very introduction states it is not just another book with war stories trying to magnify their achievements but guess what, that's exactly what it is. Literally 75% or more of the book is these guys war stories. They do somehow try to drive their leadership point but there's so much "useless" content. Perhaps for a military man learning on leadership it is useful, but for the avg person not interested in any of these stuff it becomes boring really quickly.
This book could literally be 50 pages and make the same points clearly and concisely without all the theatrics like "I spoke on the radio to my commander that we had insurgents in the area, and he replied roger". Felt like a lot of content was made just for the sake of adding pages.
That being said, the principles itself on extreme ownership are solid and I did understand them and enjoyed them. Unfortunately I had to deal with all the military out of context stories to get there. Maybe I would've liked it if my expectations for this book had been different.

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Cal Sand

2.0 out of 5 stars Surprise, I didn't love it.

Reviewed in the United States on 21 November 2018

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It seems I'm in the minority here but I didn't love this book. I love leadership and I love discipline and I was hoping to hear some unique thoughts about these subjects. I had heard a recent interview from the author and was very excited about this book.

I simply didn't find any of the principles on leadership or discipline to be anything more than common knowledge. If you read books on leadership before or on discipline or military books, there doesn't seem to be anything unique here, in my opinion.

If you love War Stories especially in a modern context, this is an excellent book. It's well-written and fun to read. I just didn't particularly find it helpful.

For leadership technique or principles of self discipline, I would not recommend this book. For stories of overcoming challenges in Modern Combat and conflict, I would recommend this book.

But ultimately, given my expectations, I was pretty disappointed. I'm also disappointed at the great reviews it's got because I feel like I'm taking crazy pills here!

* Edit: I went back and read some of the lower reviews and I concur with all of them. I'm glad at least a few people noticed that this book was heavy on bragging and light on principles. The 90% five star reviews are only right if you love War Stories and don't really care about leadership or self discipline.

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Terrahurtz

2.0 out of 5 stars Yawn

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 April 2019

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Lots of praise for the US military and how wonderful they are. Every chapter is a war anecdote followed by a brief (and bleeding obvious) life/work lesson. The moral of the stories is 'everything can be your fault, but gain credibility with your men and superiors by taking responsibility even when it isn't demonstrably your fault' and 'make orders clear so everyone knows what they are doing (and it therefore becomes less likely that things become become your fault)'. Got bored and gave up around half way.

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Mike J.

2.0 out of 5 stars Great points, but lots of fluff

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 January 2019

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The book makes excellent points, but those points could be presented on a few pages. I suspect the busy people at whom this book is aimed would be better off to google 'extreme ownership,' read the high-level topic points, think about how to apply those points in their life, and then save the time and money of buying the book. On the other hand, if you enjoy reading about the 'behind the scenes' of the US military and you're not purely after business self-help, then you'll probably enjoy the book.

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Tommie T

4.0 out of 5 stars A lot of good leadership ideas in this book and I am glad ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 July 2018

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A lot of good leadership ideas in this book and I am glad that I purchased in and read it. However it did get a bit repetitive, and the military side was interesting but a bit overdone. I realize that marketing is necessary for promoting this idea, and I understood what the authors were getting at with "extreme ownership", and many of their ideas had a depth that is missing in traditional leadership lessons, but at times the term was overused. It would have been good if the authors attached more fine detail to the concept rather than throwing "extreme ownership" at every situation. However, all in all, it is an excellent book and the authors are onto something. Too bad it takes a war to understand some of the finer details of leadership!

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