When you’re on a team, there are always going to be problems. This results in an ineffective team incapable of carrying out its plans. When leaders fail to take responsibility for their team’s failures, they pass on a bad attitude to their subordinates. On the other hand, the Navy SEAL units that perform at peak levels are led by commanders who readily shoulder blame and seek out constructive criticism. The units that perform poorly tend to blame either the scenario, their subordinates or themselves for failure. The importance of the commander’s attitude can be seen during worst-case-scenario trainings. They allowed him to keep command of his unit. That’s because his superiors realized that every leader makes mistakes, but only the good ones take responsibility for them. As the ranking officer on site he took responsibility for this horrible event and saved his job by doing so. It turned out that it wasn’t the enemy at all it was another SEAL unit and during the chaos a soldier lost his life. In 2012, one of the authors, Jocko Willink was in Ramadi, Iraq as a SEAL task unit commander when his unit was met with heavy fire from what they thought were enemy insurgents.
Big Idea #1: Leading a team to success means taking responsibility for each and every one of its failures. In this book you’ll learn how to lead by executing “cover and move” and “prioritize and execute,” as well as how accepting blame can save your job why teams within a corporation should collaborate rather than compete how facing explosives isn’t necessarily reason enough to abort a mission etc.
Their success often determined whether their men lived or died, and they found that these strategies could be applied to any organization trying to succeed with complicated tasks and difficult missions. This book is based on the insights of two Navy SEAL task unit leaders who served in Ramadi. This is especially true with Ramadi, Iraq during the war. Leadership can be extreme if you’re trying to save a city from violence. 1-Page Summary of Extreme Ownership Overview
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