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

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THE INSTANT #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom 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.

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⭐This is an excellent book. I believe I may purchase physical copies to give to friends in leadership roles in their companies.

⭐Great follow on book for Extreme Ownership. This should be mandatory reading for anyone in a leadership position.

⭐Exceptionally written. Everyone should read this. It gives amazing advice from lessons learned on the battlefield and how those lessons can be applied to business.

⭐So many books are so “rah rah” in a specific direction. This book is the first one that focuses on the balance between values and goals that is needed in any team leadership or even self leadership scenario. So much great insight. Shelved for reread!

⭐This is a how to apply the teachings of the book. Thought provoking.

⭐Dichotomy of Leadership is the follow-up book to Jocko Willink and Leif Babin’s wildly popular book on leadership, Extreme Ownership. Both men are former Navy Seals and now run a consulting company together called Echelon Front.Dichotomy of Leadership follows the same general format as Extreme Ownership. The book is divided into three parts: 1) Balancing People, 2) Balancing the Mission, and 3) Balancing Yourself. Each part is then divided into four different chapters—so twelve chapters all together—with each one covering common issues that leaders face. Special emphasis is put on balancing preferable leadership qualities without going to extremes. Here’s a quick summary of each chapter:1) Care about your individual team members, but accept that you might have to sacrifice individuals to save the group.2) Claim ownership, but don’t micromanage others so much that no one else has the opportunity to take control and feel ownership themselves. (One of my favorite chapters.)3) Be resolute but not overbearing.4) Do everything you can to help struggling team members, but know when it’s time to fire them.5) Train your team well, but don’t be so hard on people that they become overwhelmed and can no longer learn.6) Be aggressive but not reckless.7) Be disciplined but not rigid. Allow for flexibility.8) Hold people accountable, but don’t smother them with direction.9) Be a good follower if you want to be a good leader. (Another favorite!)10) Plan, but don’t over-plan.11) Be humble, but don’t be passive. Prioritize when to push back.12) Know the details of the mission, but also be detached enough that you can see the big picture.The chapter on being a good follower was so eye-opening for me. I don’t work in a business setting, but I am very active in the PTO at my kid’s school. Sometimes the group I lead gets the support it needs…and sometimes it doesn’t. And when it doesn’t, truthfully, I get mad at my “boss.” But this chapter showed me the importance of developing and maintaining a good relationship with my higher-ups, regardless of whether I agree with them or not. I loved this quote:Strive to have the same relationship with every boss you ever work for, no matter if they are good or bad. The relationship you should seek with any boss incorporates three things: 1) they trust you, 2) they value and seek your opinion and guidance, and 3) they give you what you need to accomplish your mission and then let you go execute.It’s not easy to have patience when you’re at odds with your boss, but I appreciate Willink and Babin’s advice to breathe and remember my long term goals.Ultimately, I really enjoyed this book. It’s well-written and well-organized, and I loved the real-life examples from the authors’ lives. This is a great resource for anyone who works in groups, runs a team, or answers to a boss. In other words, there’s something in here for everyone.

⭐GET THIS BOOK NOW!As an adult, this is the quickest I ever read a book cover to cover (a little less than 5 days). It is written in natural language and doesn’t do what a lot of books on leadership do which is reference studies and theories that tend to leave most readers with the “yeah, that is interesting but so what” feeling. The book is laid out like a military SOP (Standard Procedure). Each chapter is laid as follows:A. First person account of a war or training story: This is usually the longest part of each chapter, but it serves its purpose by getting the reader entrenched in the moment of the war/training story. This serves the purpose of preparing the reader to better understand the principleB. Principle: This addresses how the real-life war/training story fits the principleC. Application in Business: This takes the Principle and illustrates how the principle was used to solve a real-life business problemTAKEAWAYSThere are several takeaways that really stuck with me.• There’s story about how one of the SEAL Teams was dead tired after a two-day deployment and the Marines were stacking sandbags, the Marine commander asked them to stand down because they were tired, but the SEALs refused and helped anyway. This small act (although laborious act), helped to solidify the SEALs relationship with the Marines.• There’s another story about how they SEALs were told remove their patches (for a variety of political reasons) but also to lessen the confusion and establish mutual respect with their Army and Marine counterparts. There is also a good lesson on the flexibility of oversight.• EGO, everyone has one, but it needs to be checked at the door• Be humble or get humbled (this was another favorite lesson). If you are not humble, you are going to get cocky and you will get outflanked• Leadership is a balance, train your people, but don’t train them too hard, help your people but don’t help them so much they don’t learn, don’t abandon them either; there are times to crackdown, and there are times to let things slide, but don’t let them slide too much.For me, every story in the book reminds me of the sacrifice every soldier is ready to make. If any of the following phrases make you uncomfortable, you are not going to like this book; however, if the following phrases fill your heart with pride in the military, then you are probably going to love this book:-“Brave fighting men of xxx company-“were outstanding, aggressive, and professional soldiers”-“outstanding, aggressive warriors”-“he was a Big Tough Frogman (BTF)“

⭐Dichotomy of Leadership is the follow up book to the excellent “Extreme Ownership” title. This time Jocko and Leif share their experience on how to apply balance to the lessons learned in Extreme Ownership, and why those lessons must be applied with balance in order to get the benefit from them.The layout is similar to the previous book in that each chapter starts with the combat experience, then the principle learned and finally the civillian world application of that principle.I really enjoyed this book and both books have brought a lot of clarity and improvement to my decisions in life.

⭐Building on the thoughts shared in “Extreme Ownership”, the authors dive deeper into the craft of leadership. Exploring the extremes of each facet of leadership with impactful stories from their service and business customers.Deep concepts of leadership leap from the page in Technicolor thanks to the plain speaking and passionate writing style.Thoroughly enjoyable treatise with a huge amount of highly practical advice. Outstanding job. Highly recommended.

⭐cant fault this. Well worth reading in conjunction with Extreme Ownership. It really is a reminder of the core leadership qualities and what it means to put them into action. Very good. Preferred it as an audio book.

⭐I have heard of Jocko’s podcasts and remember he mentioned about this book. I was very skeptical at the beginning but I’m happy to be proven wrong and truly can’t state the importance of this book. In the end, I’m glad I got the book that gives me the knowledge to assist me in my professional life.

⭐Bought for me for Christmas, it was given unwrapped… Back to the book, it’s good.

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