Leadership Lessons of the Navy SEALS: Battle-Tested Strategies for Creating Successful Organizations and Inspiring Extraordinary Results

This book contains winning leadership strategies from the Navy's Elite Special Forces. With hands-on, field-tested advice from authors with decades of experience in business and combat, this straight-talking handbook shows how the leadership and team-building techniques of the elite, no-nonsense Navy SEALS can help you forge a powerful, goal-driven workforce, one that is prepared to take on - and triumph over - every challenge. Built around first-hand examples from both the military and business worlds, this step-by-step success manual will show you how to: communicate objectives simply and forcefully; build flexible and dynamic organizational structures; gain the trust and loyalty of team members; prevent bureaucracy within chains of command; and, plan and prepare for crises. Enlist the "Leadership Lessons of the Navy SEALS" to transform your workplace from a group of disconnected individuals into a confident, goal-driven team. 'The SEALS are without doubt one of the highest-performing organizations on the planet. The secret ingredient is that every SEAL is a leader/teacher, engaged in continuous, interactive teaching and learning. This book ...is a must read for all leaders' - Noel M.
Tichy, Professor, University of Michigan Business School and author of "The Cycle of Leadership".