The Dichotomy of Leadership: Balancing the Challenges of Extreme Ownership to Lead and Win by Jocko Willink

The Dichotomy of Leadership: Balancing the Challenges of Extreme Ownership to Lead and Win

by Jocko Willink

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Every leadership principle has an opposite pull, and you fail by pushing either one to the extreme. Jocko Willink and Leif Babin make that case in their follow-up to Extreme Ownership, drawing on Willink's command of SEAL Team 3's Task Unit Bruiser in the 2006 battle of Ramadi and their consulting work at Echelon Front.

Core ideas
  • People and mission: Care for individuals while accepting risk to the mission, and take ownership while empowering others through decentralized command.
  • Twelve balances: Be resolute but not overbearing, aggressive but not reckless, disciplined but flexible, and hold people accountable without micromanaging them.
  • Three parts: Balancing People, Balancing the Mission and Balancing Yourself each get four chapters, covering tensions like planning without overplanning and knowing when to lead or follow.
Published2018
Pages320
ISBN9781250195784
ReadMar 2021

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