The Dichotomy of Leadership. Balancing the Challenges of Extreme Ownership to Lead and Win

More than a million readers of Extreme Ownership learned to apply combat-proven leadership lessons from authors Jocko Willink and Leif Babin. Now Willink and Babin dive deep into the most challenging aspect of leading people : the dichotomy of leadership. This most difficult -and essential- element of leadership requires finding the balance between opposing forces that exist for every leader. Based on knowledge gained through accomplished military careers and extensive combat-leadership experience, these lessons have helped hundreds of companies and thousands of leaders across a vast array of industries.
Through dynamic examples from their combat and training experience in the SEAL teams and vignettes from the business arena, Willink and Babin demonstrate how each lesson applies to the battlefield, business, and life. Dichotomy provides the crucial insight and awareness necessary for leaders to understand : When to lead and when to follow ; when to focus and when to detach ; when to tighten the reins and when to let the team run ; when to aggressively maneuver and when to be prudent.
In "The Dichotomy of Leadership", the authors deliver a book destined to join Extreme Ownership as essential reading for every leader and every team for generations. Understanding how to maintain balance enables leaders to most effectively lead, accomplish the mission, and achieve the ultimate goal : Victory.