Elite: High Performance Lessons and Habits from a Former Navy SEAL - Hardcover

Hays, Nick

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1119538092 ISBN 13: 9781119538097

Publisher: Wiley, 2019

Synopsis

Proven tools to take your team and yourself to the next level

Elite: High Performance Lessons and Habits from a Former Navy SEAL is a practical, no-nonsense guide to elevate your leadership skills and drive your team to their maximum potential. Before you can push your team to the max, you must push yourself―elite teams require elite leaders. This invaluable guide supplies the tools you need to develop effective strategies to motivate, adapt, and overcome. Author Nick Hays combines military training with Harvard education to present a comprehensive program that will unlock the potential in yourself and your team.

The business environment has changed dramatically over the last several decades. Volatile market conditions, disruptive innovation, and digital transformations across entire sectors have rendered traditional business methods obsolete. To thrive, businesses must be adaptable, agile, and lean. Policies and procedures may change, but strong leadership and shared goals ensure a source of strength and continuity. Providing real-world methods and effective strategies, this essential resource will allow you to:

• Embrace the Warrior Mindset to always be proactive, never a victim
• Develop the trust of your team through strength and shared experience
• Devise durable and sustainable business strategies and contingency plans that adapt to fluid situations
• Promote a culture of innovation and authenticity to deliver a solid foundation for your team

Elite: High Performance Lessons and Habits from a Former Navy SEAL is a must-read guide for everyone from aspiring entrepreneurs to established business leaders. No matter the stage of your business―development, exploitation, or disruption―Elite will change your approach to business and unlock the warrior within.

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About the Author

NICK HAYS served as a Navy SEAL for 10 years and was awarded the Bronze Star. After the Navy, he worked as a contractor in the Middle East before attending Harvard Business School. Today, Nick is passionate about helping organizations adapt to a rapidly changing global context and meet the need for constant innovation. His focus is on giving teams and leaders tools to function at the highest level.

From the Back Cover

Elite leaders know that the key to getting to the top is to surround themselves with other elite people. Nick Hays is one of those elite people. Reading Elite: High Performance Lessons and Habits from a Former Navy SEAL is like ­sitting down to a one-on-one conversation with one of the elites. His resume ­features service as a Navy SEAL, high-level operations in the Middle East, work with professional sports teams, and graduation from Harvard Business School. Readers will learn the same secrets of success (and failure) that Nick Hays learned through a lifetime of commitment, fierce dedication, and achievement.

Inside, readers will find 13 principles for elite performance, each the result of hard-fought battles and tough lessons supported by the author’s experience. With practical tips to apply these principles in everyday life, everyone can benefit from these insights into what it takes to become the best of the best. Elite will be a game-changer for anyone who is open to learning new practices and strategies that will help them overcome insecurities and setbacks to accomplish even the most ambitious goals.

Above all, Elite is relatable. This is not a book written to whip readers into shape with harsh realities or intimidate them with unmatchable tales of triumph. Instead, Nick Hays unabashedly relates how his life’s accomplishments were inseparable from the failures, uncertainties, and setbacks. But he never stopped struggling to get to where he wanted to be, no matter what. In the face of adversity, he learned to keep going, to surround himself with the best of the best, and to turn struggles into lessons and motivation for relentlessly pursuing his dreams.

One of the key messages in this book is that the path to becoming elite is not a smooth one. Sometimes we must do what we have to do to improve our situation and get where we want to be. Knowing when to listen to the experts and when to stand up and fight is easier said than done. By implementing the processes outlined in Elite, readers can learn to look at every situation strategically, taking their performance to the level of the elites.

From the Inside Flap

Elite leaders know that the key to getting to the top is to surround themselves with other elite people. Nick Hays is one of those elite people. Reading Elite: High Performance Lessons and Habits from a Former Navy SEAL is like sitting down to a one-on-one conversation with one of the elites. His resume features service as a Navy SEAL, high-level operations in the Middle East, work with professional sports teams, and graduation from Harvard Business School. Readers will learn the same secrets of success (and failure) that Nick Hays learned through a lifetime of commitment, fierce dedication, and achievement.

Inside, readers will find 13 principles for elite performance, each the result of hard-fought battles and tough lessons supported by the author's experience. With practical tips to apply these principles in everyday life, everyone can benefit from these insights into what it takes to become the best of the best. Elite will be a game-changer for anyone who is open to learning new practices and strategies that will help them overcome insecurities and setbacks to accomplish even the most ambitious goals.

Above all, Elite is relatable. This is not a book written to whip readers into shape with harsh realities or intimidate them with unmatchable tales of triumph. Instead, Nick Hays unabashedly relates how his life's accomplishments were inseparable from the failures, uncertainties, and setbacks. But he never stopped struggling to get to where he wanted to be, no matter what. In the face of adversity, he learned to keep going, to surround himself with the best of the best, and to turn struggles into lessons and motivation for relentlessly pursuing his dreams.

One of the key messages in this book is that the path to becoming elite is not a smooth one. Sometimes we must do what we have to do to improve our situation and get where we want to be. Knowing when to listen to the experts and when to stand up and fight is easier said than done. By implementing the processes outlined in Elite, readers can learn to look at every situation strategically, taking their performance to the level of the elites.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1119538092
• ISBN 13: 9781119538097
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224