Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
RUSSELL RULES Rule One: Establish your business environment. Help everyone understand the power in decision-making that benefits the team. Rule Two: Make sure the team is part of the process. Help your business team or family or basketball team understand not only what’s going to happen but also the whys and the hows. Rule Three: Create unselfishne
... See moreDavid Falkner • Russell Rules: 11 Lessons on Leadership from the Twentieth Century's Greatest Winner
During SEAL training the students are broken down into boat crews. Each crew is seven students — three on each side of a small rubber boat and one coxswain to help guide the dingy. Every day your boat crew forms up on the beach and is instructed to get through the surfzone and paddle several miles down the coast. In the winter, the surf off San Die... See more
William H. McRaven • "Make Your Bed"
You as the leader establish the parameters, the overall objective, the vision. You need to articulate great performance standards for the overall organization. You need to be certain that everyone's nose is pointed in the same direction. 2.Set standards between performers and customers. We need to ensure that standards are set between performers an
... See moreJames A. Belasco • Flight of the Buffalo: Soaring to Excellence, Learning to Let Employees Lead
We've all grown up learning to follow authority: first our parents, then our teachers, and then our bosses. The first and probably most often reinforced lesson we learn is “Do as you are told by the person in charge.” Now, however, the “person in charge” is the person who formally reports to you. In this topsy-turvy world, as a leader you actually
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