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

Jocko Willink · Leif Babin

Sep 2018 · Macmillan Audio · Narrated by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin

About this audiobook

"With so much of this audiobook illustrated by the authors' battlefield experiences, their dramatic, often combative, narration is not entirely out of place...the authors grasp the awesome responsibilities of leading, and their assertive performances convey an urgency that makes this lesson memorable." — AudioFile Magazine

The importance of balance as a leader by the #1 New York Times bestselling authors of Extreme Ownership.

Every leader must be ready and willing to take charge, to make hard, crucial calls for the good of the team and the mission. Something much more difficult to understand is that, in order to be a good leader, one must also be a good follower. This is a dichotomy; a Dichotomy of Leadership. It is, as authors Jocko Willink and Leif Babin explained in their bestselling first audiobook Extreme Ownership, “Simple, Not Easy.” Now, in The Dichotomy of Leadership, the authors explain the power inherent in the recognition of the fine line that leaders must walk, balancing between two seemingly opposite inclinations. It is with the knowledge and understanding of this balance that a leader can most effectively lead, accomplish the mission and achieve the goal of every leader and every team: Victory.

Using examples from the authors' combat and training experience in the SEAL Teams and then showing how each lesson applies to business and in life, Willink and Babin reveal how the use of seemingly opposite principles—leading and following, focusing and detaching, being both aggressive and prudent—require skill, awareness, understanding and dexterity; all attributes that can be honed. These dichotomies are inherent in many of the concepts introduced in Extreme Ownership, and integral to their proper implementation and effectiveness. Dichotomy is essential listening for anyone looking to lead and win.

Ratings and reviews

So much can be learned from what these outstanding leaders, have shared with us. As in any learning experience, there will be things that can bore, be repetitive, or seem to not apply. If you practice discipline, patience, thoroughness, and attentiveness, I guarantee that you will quickly find many areas in your life that the knowledge these warriors have shared with us can vastly improve your current standing and abilities. In just part one of this book I recognized things I failed at just last week while leading those I work with. And now Ladies and Gentlemen..... "Stand by to get some"

previous book: take extreme ownership this book: nevermind, there's a "dichotomy" jocko and leif started out on a path that seemed to promise great insight, then brought it around full circle to what we all already know: there's a balance that has to be maintained in all aspects of leadership.

So far we have interesting concept but deeply boring all the bla bla about military events. Unless you are fanatic about American army stay away...

About the author

JOCKO WILLINK and LEIF BABIN served as U.S. Navy SEAL officers in the toughest urban combat mission in the history of the SEAL teams. Their unit remains the most highly decorated special operations unit in the Iraq War. After returning, Babin and Willink formed Echelon Front, a leadership training company that teaches others to build and lead their own winning teams using lessons learned from the battlefield. Their first book, Extreme Ownership, is a #1 New York Times bestseller.