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The $100 MBA Show

MBA1268 Must Read: Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink

The $100 MBA Show

Omar Zenhom

Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Careers, Business

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2019

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

A business owner owns a business. A business leader owns its performance. We can apply lessons from all avenues of life to business. The military is no exception. Jocko Willink is a decorated Navy SEAL from one of the elite group’s most honored units. After his service, he took what he learned in the field to the business world.

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0:00.0

Heyo! Welcome to the $100.00 a show a better business with just 10 minutes a day with our daily 10 minute business

0:15.6

lessons for the real world. I'm your host, your coach, your teacher, Omar Zenholm.

0:20.7

I'm also the co-founder of the $100 MBA, a complete business training and community online.

0:26.7

And today's episode is a must read episode. On our must read episodes, I share with you a book that

0:31.2

I've read that has influenced me as an entrepreneur. I share with you a book that I've read that has influenced me as an entrepreneur.

0:34.0

I share with you its insights, its takeaways, and why you should read it too.

0:37.5

Today's must read is Extreme Ownership by Jako Willink.

0:41.0

Jako Willink served as a Navy SEALs officer during the Battle of Ramadi in Iraq, leaving

0:46.0

what would become the most highly decorated Special Operations Unit in the Iraq War.

0:51.7

Then now run a leadership consulting firm that teaches business leaders how to build their

0:56.0

own high performance teams.

0:58.6

Full transparency here, I've heard a lot about this book, but I've been putting it aside for some time purely

1:04.1

because I'm not a big army guy I'm not a big military guy it's not something that

1:08.1

really attracts me immediately I have a lot of respect for those who serve. You know I spoke at the US military

1:15.0

twice but war and battle just not something I'm really interested in. But there are

1:19.9

a lot of leadership lessons you can learn in an extreme environment like that where things are literally life and death

1:26.6

and not only for you and your team but for the millions of people that you're defending the people that you're fighting for.

1:31.5

And in this bill jocco really focuses on how to become a better leader in business.

1:38.0

He applies a lot of the military leadership tactics into the business world.

1:42.0

And some of the things I want to share with you today

1:44.1

from the book are some strategies like how to accept blame when things go wrong and

1:48.7

how teams in a corporation or a business should collaborate rather than compete and

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