Leadership Lessons of the Navy SEALS: Battle-Tested Strategies for Creating Successful Organizations and Inspiring Extraordinary Results: ... Extraordinary Results (MGMT & LEADERSHIP) - Softcover

Cannon, Jeff; Cannon, Jon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0071450130 ISBN 13: 9780071450133

Publisher: McGraw Hill, 2005

Synopsis

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".

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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
• 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

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw Hill
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0071450130
• ISBN 13: 9780071450133
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240