Extreme Ownership

I first learned of this book Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin because my son was listening to the audiobook. I started listening too, and I was hooked. I interpreted "extreme ownership" as: if you are a leader, and things go wrong, it is all your fault. This realization and acceptance was very liberating because if you accept ownership of the problem, this means you also have agency over the solution.

Another takeaway is the only meaningful test of a leader is whether a team succeeds or fails. There are two measures of a leader: effective or ineffective. The leader is fundamentally responsible for everything; that is extreme ownership.