Extreme Ownership

Three of the ideas you’ll keep

The Clif summary of Extreme Ownership pulls out 7 insights. Here are the first three.

1. Take Extreme Ownership of every result in your world. When something fails, your first move is to ask what *you* could have done differently, never to assign blame down or sideways.
2. There are no bad teams, only bad leaders. The same people produce different results under different leadership, so raise the standard and hold the line before you blame the roster.
3. You can't lead people toward something you don't believe in. If you don't understand or buy into the mission, push back up the chain until you do, then sell it convincingly to your team.

The other 4 — and the full 11-minute summary — are in the app.

What’s inside: 10 chapters

The whole summary runs about 11 minutes, read or listened to.

1. Extreme Ownership: It Starts With You
2. No Bad Teams, Only Bad Leaders
3. Believe in the Mission
4. Check the Ego
5. Cover and Move: Teamwork Wins
6. Simple: Strip the Plan Down
7. Prioritize and Execute
8. Decentralized Command
9. Plan, Lead the Whole Chain, and Decide
10. Discipline Equals Freedom: The Dichotomy of Leadership