Take Command: Lessons in Leadership: How to Be a First Responder in Business

Take Command: Lessons in Leadership: How to Be a First Responder in Business

by Jake Wood
Take Command: Lessons in Leadership: How to Be a First Responder in Business

Take Command: Lessons in Leadership: How to Be a First Responder in Business

by Jake Wood

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Overview

In this groundbreaking book on high-stakes leadership, Co-founder and CEO of Team Rubicon and former Marine Sniper Jake Wood, shows how to apply hard-learned lessons in leadership and teamwork from the battlefield and disaster zone to your professional life.

What do elite members of the military, first responders in the disaster zone, and high-performing leaders in fast-paced, high-pressure, modern day organizations have in common? The ability to have clarity of mind and purpose when surrounded by chaos. To operate at peak performance under risk. To be able to see clearly when others are blinded by fear, and act when others are paralyzed. To craft plans even with incomplete information, then execute those plans decisively--while still being nimble and adaptable enough to iterate as the terrain changes. To deliver in the clutch. To build teams with high impact, and then inspire those teams to follow you into the fire.

While most of our jobs don’t involve leading a tour of Marines through an ambush, or rushing into a relief zone just decimated by a hurricane, in today's fast-paced, hyper-competitive business environment, we are all on the front lines. And in an entrepreneurially-minded world where technology is constantly reinventing how we work, global competition is fierce, and industries are being disrupted overnight, success requires a new kind of leadership. This book is about how to become the kind of leader who gets results when the stakes are at their highest—how to Take Command.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780804138390
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/14/2014
Sold by: Random House
Format: eBook
Pages: 256
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

Jake Wood is cofounder and CEO of Team Rubicon and a former Marine sniper with tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. He has been profiled by Forbes, People, and on CNN and has been named a 2012 CNN Hero and awarded the 2011 GQ Better Men Better World Award.

Team Rubicon (TR) is disaster relief organization that unites military veterans with first responders to rapidly deploy emergency response teams to areas hit by natural disasters. TR is widely recognized for its organizational efficiency and ability to be one of the first to reach the most devastated, remote, and needy areas.  Since 2010, Team Rubicon has been instrumental in over 50 missions ranging from South Sudan and Haiti, to Joplin, Missouri and Hurricane Sandy.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

Prepare

Lesson 1 Preparation: Lessons from the Marines' Most Elite School 17

Lesson 2 Build a High-Impact Team 44

Lesson 3 Establish Transparency; Demand Accountability 72

Analyze

Lesson 4 Find and Prioritize Your Targets 103

Lesson 5 Create Actionable Intelligence 129

Decide

Lesson 6 Know, Then Accept, Your Risks 153

Lesson 7 Find the 80% Solution 176

Act

Lesson 8 Improvise, Adapt, and Overcome 205

Conclusion 229

Acknowledgments 241

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