TakingPoint

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

De: Brent Gleeson, Mark Owen - introduction

Narrado por: Brent Gleeson

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 include:

-Culture: The Single Most Important Enabler
-Trust: Fueling the Change Engine
-Accountability: Ownership at All Levels
-Mindset: Belief in the Mission
-Preparation: Gathering Intelligence and Planning the Mission
-Transmission: Communicating the Vision
-Inclusion: The Power of Participation and Acceptance
-Fatigue: Managing Fear and Staying Energized
-Discipline: Focus and Follow-Through
-Resiliency: 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.

An excellent combination of military and real life applications

Make sure you read “Embrace the Suck” as well.
Truly amazing and helpful.
A must have for leaders everywhere

An excellent book with essential talking points

I enjoyed this read so much that I’m running through it a second time. Brent does an excellent job outlining intuitive concepts in an effort to improve oneself in various environments. Whether in life on a personal level or in business as a leader, this book provides ample instruction and guidance.
BravoZulu to Brent G. and thank you for creating this book.

Doc Jr.

Now, go get it

Could only take mental notes while driving and listening. Going to buy the book and read again for the first time. Change is happening all around, and now I think I have more and better tools to take it on!

Excellent Book for any Leader.

Excellent Audio Book. Planning on listening to it again to catch finer points. Highly Recommended

Enjoyed it so much, I'm getting the hard copy.

The narrator's tone, along with the content of this book, really helps me get into the mindset I want to have. Direct and uplifting; I'll be getting the hard copy to have and take notes. "Relationships are paramount."