Synopses & Reviews
Leadership Secrets from the Navy's Elite Special Forces
For nearly half a century, the legendary SEAL (Sea-Air-Land) organization has been creating strong, effective leaders who excel at developing remarkable teams and delivering extraordinary results. This elite group's unique approach to leadership, which has been successfully field-tested on grueling missions around the world, is just as useful in today's no-quarter business arena as it is on the battlefield. Built around firsthand 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, dynamic organizational structures
- Gain the trust and loyalty of team members
- Prevent bureaucracy within chains of command
- Plan and prepare for crises
- Make training effective by making it relevant
When military strategists want an impossible job done--and want it done right, the first time--they call on the Navy SEALs. Discover the secrets to the SEALs' success, and how you can use their leadership techniques to transform your own workplace from a group of disconnected individuals into a confident, goal-driven team, in Leadership Lessons of the Navy Seals.
Today's bookshelves are filled with advice from academics and "thought leaders" imparting classroom theories on how to increase employee productivity, reduce turnover, and fully leverage the value of each member of your organization. Far too often, however, their theories have not been subjected to the intense heat of a real-world, all-or-nothing team project, or the crushing pressure involved in trying to lead a company back to profitability.
Leadership Lessons of the Navy SEALs cuts through the theoretical noise and nonsense to provide you with hands-on, field-proven advice from authors with decades of experience in the trenches of both business and live-ammunition combat. This straight-talking guidebook shows you how the leadership and teambuilding techniques of the elite, no-nonsense Navy SEALs can help you forge a powerful and goal-driven workforce, one that is prepared to take on--and triumph over--every challenge. Look here to discover how you can create and manage small, skilled, and loyal teams that:
- Conduct focused operations with a minimum of costly distraction
- Quickly analyze situations to arrive at make logical, effective decisions
- Work with instead of against one another, sharing victory and learning from defeat
Leadership Lessons of the Navy SEALs is filled with examples of how the SEALs have learned to operate effectively as a team. It discusses the necessity of giving each employee a specific and vital role; explains how you can acquire and keep essential team members without automatically resorting to pay increases; explores various methods you can use to expand or contract your workforce without taking on lethal business risk; and more.
While today's "Lean is better" mantra is great for businesses looking to control their costs, it can be excruciating for employees looking to stabilize and build their careers. Let Leadership Lessons of the Navy SEALs show you how to overcome this environment and instill confidence in each of your employees by creating, training, and leading teams designed to successfully carry out each phase of your company's long-term mission.
Synopsis
THE NAVY SEAL WAY TO WIN IN BUSINESSLeadership and teamwork techniques of the military elite, where partnering is mandatory, and failure is never an option
As increasing focus is placed on fully utilizing and leveraging the value of employees, managers are finding that strong team leadership can be the answer to increasing productivity, reducing turnover, and boosting morale. A coherent, proven approach to teambuilding and leadership is very much in demand. Such an approach exists in today's military, where powerful leadership and effective teamwork are more than just conceptsthey're necessities. Leadership Lessons of the Navy SEALs analyzes the leadership and team-building techniques and strategies of elite Navy SEAL units, and guides business leaders and managers in creating, training, and leading teams that are extraordinarily successful at carrying out the company's mission.
Built around inspiring real-life stories from both the military and business worlds, this no-nonsense book outlines a step-by-step approach for boosting morale and increasing productivity. Leaders from every business environment will discover techniques to:
- Communicate objectives simply and forcefully
- Build flexible, dynamic organizational structures
- Acquire and keep important team members
- Gain the trust and loyalty of team members
- Prevent bureaucracy within chains of command
- Effectively train their eventual replacements
- Plan and prepare for crises
- Make training relevant
Synopsis
THE NAVY SEAL WAY TO WIN IN BUSINESS
Leadership and teamwork techniques of the military elite, where partnering is mandatory, and failure is never an option
As increasing focus is placed on fully utilizing and leveraging the value of employees, managers are finding that strong team leadership can be the answer to increasing productivity, reducing turnover, and boosting morale. A coherent, proven approach to teambuilding and leadership is very much in demand. Such an approach exists in today's military, where powerful leadership and effective teamwork are more than just concepts--they're necessities. Leadership Lessons of the Navy SEALs analyzes the leadership and team-building techniques and strategies of elite Navy SEAL units, and guides business leaders and managers in creating, training, and leading teams that are extraordinarily successful at carrying out the company's mission.
Built around inspiring real-life stories from both the military and business worlds, this no-nonsense book outlines a step-by-step approach for boosting morale and increasing productivity. Leaders from every business environment will discover techniques to: Communicate objectives simply and forcefully Build flexible, dynamic organizational structures Acquire and keep important team members Gain the trust and loyalty of team members Prevent bureaucracy within chains of command Effectively train their eventual replacements Plan and prepare for crises Make training relevant
About the Author
Jeff Cannon is the senior vice president of Draft Worldwide's Interactive Department in New York. He is a popular speaker and veteran of the advertising industry.
Lieutenant Commander Jon Cannon is a Navy SEAL with experience in Latin America, the Far East, Eastern Europe, the Persian Gulf, and Africa. Cannon has also worked to develop new product launch strategies in Europe and determine marketing strategies for companies in the Middle East.