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TakingPoint: A Navy SEAL's 10 Fail Safe Principles for Leading Through Change
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Expected 31 Dec 50Decorated Navy SEAL, accomplished businessman, and world-renowned speaker Brent Gleeson shares his revolutionary ten principles 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 collaborated 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.
In “an inspirational shot of adrenaline” (Jack Carr, former Navy SEAL and author of The Terminal List ), Gleeson proves that business leaders and managers at all levels can’t just react to change. They have to lead change. They have to take point. “For those that want to deepen their understanding of the lessons today’s veterans have learned, and how those lessons can make us all better business leaders, Brent is a person you’ll want to listen to!” (Stanley McChrystal General, US Army (Ret.) Managing Partner, McChrystal Group).
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 collaborated 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.
In “an inspirational shot of adrenaline” (Jack Carr, former Navy SEAL and author of The Terminal List ), Gleeson proves that business leaders and managers at all levels can’t just react to change. They have to lead change. They have to take point. “For those that want to deepen their understanding of the lessons today’s veterans have learned, and how those lessons can make us all better business leaders, Brent is a person you’ll want to listen to!” (Stanley McChrystal General, US Army (Ret.) Managing Partner, McChrystal Group).
320 pages, Paperback
First published February 27, 2018
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December 4, 2018
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.
March 19, 2018
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.
June 22, 2022
One of my most favorite leadership books that I could read over and over
May 11, 2023
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.
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.
March 14, 2021
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.
May 17, 2022
Solid but often vague. He’s no Jocko
October 7, 2024
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.
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