Extreme Ownership

Multiple Choice

As Principals I wanted to poll your opinion. Who/What is the factor most responsible for an ineffective school/leadership team?

• The Principal

• The Instructional Staff

• The Instructional Support Staff

• Your APs

• The Situations surrounding the school

Multiple Select

As Principals I wanted to poll your opinion. Who/What is the factor deserves the credit for an effective school/leadership team?

• The Principal

• The Instructional Staff

• The Instructional Support

• Your APs

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"I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul."

― William Ernest Henley

Contemporary Leadership

EDUC ​546

Alexander Brown​

-Tyler De​Vries

Two former Navy SEALs teamed up to bring us the most bad--- book on leadership ever written. In Extreme Ownership, Jocko Willink and Leif Babin take turns describing their experience fighting in the Battle of Ramadi, Iraq, and then conclude each chapter with a leadership principle and business application. Equal parts war memoir and leadership manual, these guys will get you to stop making excuses, take ownership of your life, and put you on the path to experience freedom through discipline.

​Three Sentence Summary...

1. ​ Extreme Ownership - Own Everything in your world

2. No Bad Teams, Only Bad Leaders - Its what you tolerate

3. Believe - Be a true believer in the mission ​

4. Check the Ego - Team is more important than your agenda

5. Cover and Move - Teamwork

6. Simple - Complexity compounds issues

7. Prioritize and Execute - Relax. Look around. Make a call.

8. Decentralize Command - Not capable of managing more than 6

9. Plan - Purpose and Expected Outcome

10. Leading Up and Down - Regular Observation + Talk positively up

11. ​Decisiveness amid Uncertainty - There is no 100% best right solution

12. ​Discipline Equals Freedom - (Dichotomy of Leadership)

Poll

I think that the leadership principles discussed in Extreme Ownership would be __________ at my school site.

• Effective

• Ineffective