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

A supremely boring read, 60% of it being war stories whose quality shift between mediocre and infantile and whose content is riddled with american jingoism. The remaining 40% is baby's first leadership lessons, the kind I would literally find in cartoons. 

Must read for any team member and team leader.

A very elaborate look at leadership and delegation

Each chapter in this book covers a different aspect of leadership beginning with and centered around owning each aspect of your team and your scope of influence. Each of these chapters begins with an account of a military operation, then principles and learnings from that account, and finally its application to business. As well structured as this is, I began to get exhausted by the detailed accounts. I can see why they might have been important to get the context of the principle coming up in that chapter, but I often found repetition and got tired of self aggrandizement (yes, it felt like that a few times).

I would still recommend reading this book but speed read or skim through the beginnings of each chapter. I wouldn't skip them entirely and I'm curious if someone did that and still was able to take away the essence of the chapter.

The book has some really good points and the core message is solid. You have to like or at least appreciate military stories to really enjoy it though. At times it even becomes a bit disturbing how the authors dehumanize the “the enemy”.

As I believe in team autonomy I thought this book would make a case for the opposite. But ownership is a requirement for autonomy. Read team if teams, then this.

I think I had over-inflated expectations of this book which results in my mediocre review. The principles in the book are solid, but fairly simplistic. If you like military culture then this book is a good choice for you, but it didn't hit home for me. I have immense respect for people who put their lives on the line, and the authors of the book are clearly skilled leaders in their field. Their stories about their mission in Iraq were interesting to read but I felt that the transfer of principles to business were a bit shallow. Most of the chapters were in the format 1) Tell exciting war stories 2) Expound upon a leadership principle 3) Tell a story about a business scenario 4) Conclude “look the principle works”.

Good but very american. What he states is solid advice and everything should take onboard. Just a bit too many stories of Iraq for me.

I'd recommend reading a summary of the book.

Also if you listen to the audiobook like I did, it's possible that Americans repeatedly pronouncing foreign names incorrectly with such brazen confidence might become a trigger for you too.

2.5 stars, rounded to 3 stars. While the principles are useful, this is not an engaging book for non-military folks. At least 50% of the book is military storytelling, and at least 25% of that is not essential to the points being made.

It was inspirational. Especially since the audiobook was read by the authors and it's fun to hear what they sound like. The main points were all pretty generic, but at the same time they were very useful.

It's a bunch of boring advice that can act as words of encouragement for the reader. E.g. “Take full responsibility for any mistakes that happen on your command.” Ok, yeah, that's a good idea, but it's not really expanding my mind.

The war stories were not all that educational, but they were fun to listen to. Hearing opinions about the US presence in the Middle East from the view of a SEAL leader on the ground was definitely interesting.

Todo te pertenece , sobre todo los errores
6 personas en tuu linea de comando
mantente estrategico, ejales trabajar en los detalles, si lo hacen mal, les ensenyaste mal
crea planes sencillos, deja que la gente cree detalles de estos planes
Cuando el plan este completo, ensena ael plan a todos y acepta preguntas o pregunta tu a ellos para tener claro queu lo han entendido

Extreme Ownership doesn't provide any ground breaking new leadership techniques, and the authors readily admit to this. It does, however, frame a simple set of leadership guidelines in such a way that makes them easier to consider and apply to your own situation.