Extreme Ownership is a book written by two former Navy SEALs, Jocko Willink and Leif Babin, about their experiences and trials while serving in the Iraq War. The two propose a doctrine of “extreme ownership,” the idea that the leader is truly and ultimately responsible for everything in his or her world. While extreme ownership requires checking your ego and operating with a high degree of humility, it is an outlook that will propagate itself through the entire team and lead to success.
These lessons are not only applicable for the military world, but for regular people in their own lives — as Jocko says, “… combat is reflective of life, only amplified and intensified. Decisions have immediate consequences, and everything — absolutely everything — is at stake” (12).