TakingPoint: A Navy SEAL's 10 Fail Safe Principles for Leading Through Change

by Brent Gleeson, Mark Owen (Foreword)

Decorated Navy SEAL, successful businessman and world-renowned speaker Brent Gleeson shares his revolutionary approach to navigating and leading change in the workplace—with a foreword by #1 New York Times bestselling author Mark Owen.Inspired by his time as a Navy SEAL and building award-winning organizations in the business world, Brent Gleeson has created a powerful roadmap for today’s existing and emerging business leaders and managers to improve their ability to successfully navigate organizational change. Over the past ten years since leaving the SEAL Teams, Gleeson has become a well-respected thought leader and expert in business transformation. He has spoken to and consulted with hundreds of organizations across the globe and inspired thousands of business leaders through his highly insightful philosophies on leadership, culture and building high-performance teams that achieve winning results. In TakingPoint, Gleeson shares his ten-step program that he has implemented in his own companies and for his high-profile clients—giving leaders and managers actionable insights and a framework for successful execution. TakingPoint brilliantly captures the structures, behaviors and mindsets required to build successful twenty-first century organizations. With a strong emphasis on communication, culture, engagement, accountability, trust, and resiliency, Gleeson’s methods have helped hundreds of companies around the world transform the way they think about change, and can help yours do the same. For the last five years, Gleeson has shared his philosophies through his weekly columns on Forbes and Inc. And now, for the first time ever, they are captured in this entertaining and highly prescriptive book. Steps - The Single Most Important Enabler - Fueling the Change Engine - Ownership at All Levels - Belief in the Mission - Gathering Intelligence and Planning the Mission - Communicating the Vision - The Power of Participation and Acceptance - Managing Fear and Staying Energized - Focus and Follow-Through - The Path of Lasting Change Never has change been more consistent and disruptive as it is now. Business leaders and managers at all levels can’t just react to change. They have to lead change. They have to take point.

Genres: Leadership, Military Fiction, Nonfiction, Audiobook, Self Help, Business, Management

321 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 27, 2018

Reviews

[Rob Roy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ok, why is a retired guy reading a book on leadership? Force of habit. One of the keys to leadership continually studies of the subject. That said, this is one of the better books on leadership I have seen. Its emphasis is on change, and frankly, from my experience in both the Navy and the Civilian worlds, change is where most leaders fail. I highly recommend this book to senior leadership and those who are heading up transformation projects. If you met neither of these categories, read it anyway, your time will come.

[Barry Engelhardt · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the most insightful and detailed accounts of change management I've ever read. Brent relies on real world experience in business and military environments to provide straight forward and simplistic execution checklists focusing on all aspects of the business. The best Veteran written business management book I've read since Extreme Ownership. Highly recommend.

[Crystal · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of my most favorite leadership books that I could read over and over

[Jay Torres · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read and listened to this book. To me this book is written in two parts, a memoir celebrating the author’s victories and fortitude as a soldier, and the business principles applicable in any leadership role. The 4 stars were for the business principles.


I recommend the book as the processes defined can be applied immediately to any team setting, but I skipped half the book because I didn’t want to read the self congratulatory stories. There are plenty of military books that I enjoy, and the leadership principles he defines are applicable. I also see the relevance of the two subjects, but I didn’t enjoy the mix as written in this book.

[Sean Conley · Rating 1 out of 5]

If you’re looking for a Navy SEAL book about leadership, skip this one and read anything by Jocko Willink. This author tried but missed the mark.

[Michał Węgrzyn · Rating 3 out of 5]

Solid but often vague. He’s no Jocko

[Yvonne Deaver · Rating 3 out of 5]

Little to long trying to bring the same point (no pun intended) across for the readers. I love how he integrates “Tales from the frontline” into his teaching.

[Mahfer · Rating 1 out of 5]

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