"The Navy SEALs. The Green Berets. Delta Force. These are just a
few examples of what are known as ""special ops"" -- unique
fighting forces trained to beat overwhelming odds on every mission.
Using principles like speed, purpose, repetition, surprise, and
simplicity, elite units such as these have throughout history
accomplished extremely challenging tasks against vastly superior
forces. When something seemingly impossible must be achieved,
special ops forces are the ones called upon for a miracle.
Just as special ops are needed for critical tasks in battle,
ultra-high achievers are needed for special circumstances in
business: situations where time is important, when resources are
low or insufficient, where you are challenging conventional wisdom
or established competitors, or where crisis is imminent. But can
commando techniques really work in business?
If you can inspire and lead your employees to work at peak
performance, they will accomplish dramatic, almost fantastic feats
for you -- just as fighting commandos do in battle situations.
Secrets of Special Ops Leadership reveals the essential methods
commando leaders employ, using dramatic real-life stories of
commando leadership from biblical times all the way up through Iraq
and Afghanistan in 2005, and showing how similar techniques are
used by present-day business leaders such as Steve Jobs, Mary Kay
Ash, Robert Townsend, and others. You'll learn the fourteen core
practices of special ops leadership, including how to:
* Create the Best
If you think you can just call some of your regular employees
together and give them a pep talk and an impossible task to do,
you're wrong. Business commandos aren't born. They must be created.
Your first task as a special ops business leader is to recruit,
select, train, and motivate the right people.
* Build a Commando Team
Using models such as Carlson's Raiders, who fought for the U.S.
Marines during World War II, the book explains how to work with
different personalities, agendas, priorities, and motivations to
create a team that works efficiently and effectively to get the job
done.
* Dare the Impossible
Like the Sayeret Mat'kal, the Israeli Special Ops unit that
staged the miraculous raid on Entebbe to free hostages on an Air
France plane hijacked by terrorists in 1976, successful business
ops must aggressively seek out opportunities and know when to
transcend conventional thinking to stage an assault and take
action.
When they've got the right problems to work on, business
commandos can do many times the work of normal employees,
accomplish more with less, complete projects against looming
deadlines, and create innovative new products and strategies.
Secrets of Special Ops Leadership gives you the ammunition you need
to get a business commando unit up and running and achieve the
impossible for your organization."
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