Extreme Ownership

Jocko Willink and Leif Babin, two U. S. Navy SEAL officers who led the most highly decorated special operations unit of the Iraq War , share how to apply powerful leadership principles from the battlefield to business and life in a new edition of LEADERSHIP ESSENTIALS: FOR BUSINESS, NOT WAR . Combat teaches the toughest leadership lessons, with everything at stake. Willink and Babin learned this reality first-hand on the most violent and dangerous battlefield in Iraq , where their mission was “one many thought impossible: help U. S. forces secure Ramadi, a violent, insurgent-held city deemed ‘all but lost . ’”