Authors and Leadership Consultants
Jocko Willink and Leif Babin are former US Navy SEAL officers who served together in Task Unit Bruiser during the Battle of Ramadi. They co founded the leadership consulting firm Echelon Front and co authored the bestselling book Extreme Ownership.
by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin
The follow-up to Extreme Ownership, this book addresses the most common leadership challenge: finding the balance between opposing forces. Willink and Babin draw on their combat experience as Navy SEALs and business consulting work to show that leadership requires nuance, not just bold decisiveness.
The books Jocko Willink and Leif Babin references, cites, and recommends most frequently.
by Jocko Willink
Willink and Babin argue that every leadership failure is ultimately a failure of ownership. Lessons from Navy SEAL combat translate directly: leaders must own everything in their world, no excuses.
by Simon Sinek
Sinek argues that great leaders create a Circle of Safety so teams can focus on external threats rather than internal politics, and explains the behavior through four chemicals: endorphins, dopamine, serotonin, and oxytocin. He contrasts serotonin- and oxytocin-driven selfless cultures with the cortisol-soaked environments produced by fear-based management.
by Patrick Lencioni
Lencioni uses a leadership fable to diagnose five interconnected failures that cripple teams: absence of trust, fear of conflict, lack of commitment, avoidance of accountability, and inattention to results.
by L. David Marquet
Marquet transformed a struggling submarine by replacing command-and-control with intent-based leadership. Giving control to the people closest to the information unleashed extraordinary results.
Who Jocko draws from, and who draws from Jocko — aggregated across every book in this collection. Counts show the number of citation links, not the depth of each one.