THE INSTANT #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER
From the #1 New York Times bestselling authors of Extreme Ownership
comes a new and revolutionary approach to help leaders recognize and
attain the leadership balance crucial to victory.
With their first book, Extreme Ownership (published in October 2015),
Jocko Willink and Leif Babin set a new standard for leadership,
challenging readers to become better leaders, better followers, and
better people, in both their professional and personal lives. Now, in
THE DICHOTOMY OF LEADERSHIP**,** Jocko and Leif dive even deeper into
the unchartered and complex waters of a concept first introduced in
Extreme Ownership: finding balance between the opposing forces that
pull every leader in different directions. Here, Willink and Babin get
granular into the nuances that every successful leader must navigate.
Mastering the Dichotomy of Leadership requires understanding when to
lead and when to follow; when to aggressively maneuver and when to pause
and let things develop; when to detach and let the team run and when to
dive into the details and micromanage. In addition, every leader must:
- Take Extreme Ownership of everything that impacts their mission, yet
utilize Decentralize Command by giving ownership to their team.
- Care deeply about their people and their individual success and
livelihoods, yet look out for the good of the overall team and above all
accomplish the strategic mission.
- Exhibit the most important quality in a leader--humility, but also be
willing to speak up and push back against questionable decisions that
could hurt the team and the mission.
With examples from the authors' combat and training experiences in the
SEAL teams, and then a demonstration of how each lesson applies to the
business world, Willink and Babin clearly explain THE DICHOTOMY OF
LEADERSHIP**--**skills that are mission-critical for any leader and any
team to achieve their ultimate goal: VICTORY.
