Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win

by Jocko Willink

Continually check and question the plan against emerging information to ensure it still fits the situation. • Brief the plan to all participants and supporting assets.

Conduct post-operational debrief after execution.

if your team isn’t doing what you need them to do, you first have to look at yourself. Rather than blame them for not seeing the strategic picture, you must figure out a way to better communicate it to them in terms that are simple, clear, and concise, so that they understand.

Camp Ramadi at the edge of the war-torn city. Invading armies had camped along this very riverbank for millennia: Babylonians, Assyrians, Persians, Greeks, Arabs, Ottoman Turks, and British troops.

The only way you could make time, was to get up early. That took discipline.

there was, and is, a dichotomy in the strict discipline we followed.

Just as discipline and freedom are opposing forces that must be balanced, leadership requires finding the equilibrium in the dichotomy of many seemingly contradictory qualities, between one extreme and another.