Leadership Is Overrated

How the Navy SEALS (and Successful Businesses) Create Self-Leading Teams That Win

De: Kyle Buckett, Chris Mefford

Narrado por: Jamie Renell

An award-winning pair of executive consultants reveal why to be successful, businesses need self-leading teams, not just good leadership.

“In a society so obsessed with leadership, why are we so bad at it?”

Despite the countless seminars, courses, and management books designed to hone good leaders, over 79% of employees leave their jobs due to poor leadership. Why is this happening? Award-winning executive consultant Chris Mefford and retired, high-ranking US Navy SEAL trainer Kyle Buckett argue that organizations need more than just leaders. They need successful teams.

Mefford and Buckett are passionate about how our leadership model has failed and spotlight a new work culture that actually works. In Leadership Is Overrated, they draw on the SEAL model and on their decades of knowledge and experience coaching industry leaders to answer the question: what makes a productive team? The surprising truth is that behind every successful team is a cadre of empowered, self-starting employees.

In this revolutionary guide, Mefford and Buckett share crucial leadership strategies to help organizations revamp their work culture, throw out stifling hierarchical leadership models, and embrace a dynamic, results-oriented, and successful self-led team-oriented model instead.

©2023 Kyle Buckett and Chris Mefford (P)2023 HarperCollins Publishers

Phenomenal book on leadership.

As a special operations forces officer and multiple business owner, I definitely appreciated this book very much. The authors concept of small team leadership and a leadership team is an amazing construct that I wish was implemented more in the corporate world. That book was very well written, and the audio version was pleasant to listen to. My only complaint is there’s not three more booksto follow up and dive deeper into the ideas. Looking forward to anything else that these authors come out with.

This is how CULTURE is built!

What drives high profitability and growth in an organization?

Well it’s obviously repeat customers and new customers

Well what drives that?

Well it’s highly engaged people providing high quality work

And those people aligned with leadership and the designed culture!

This book teaches us how to achieve it all!

The key to successful teams is right here!

Using examples from the military and business, Kyle and Chris illuminate the value of Teams, Leadership, Culture. A must read for anyone who works with others (even if you’re not the “Leader”)

How to maximize the potential of teams

A must read for leaders of teams. This book gives good principles on how to foster the potential in each individual of the team. This book is filled with great take away's.

The last leadership book you need

A great systematic guide for how to build a culture of a self-led team. Highly recommend!

Leadership is overrated - Great Words!

Thanks for putting this in writing the story and how you relate to organizations is great. I love methods you described and experience. I agree... Great words for success! #ThankYou #GreatBook

Well done my friend

Good job on the book, Buck. Great messages, and shared wisdom. Appreciate it.

- Adam C.

Powerful truths and real methods of implementation

This book is an incredible resource for reinforcing the truths and principles that drive success with teams that are working to achieve their full potential. This can be a mirage with standard leadership principles but this book lays bare where the common pitfalls and shortcomings are and how to unravel them and build a solid high performance team. Thank you for writing such an incredible resource and for sacrificing for decades to get to these truths and be able to share the hard earned principles.