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By Jake Wood

In this groundbreaking booklet on high-stakes management, Co-founder and CEO of crew Rubicon and previous Marine Sniper Jake wooden, exhibits how you can practice hard-learned classes in management and teamwork from the battlefield and catastrophe sector in your expert life.

What do elite individuals of the army, first responders within the catastrophe sector, and high-performing leaders in fast moving, high-pressure, modern-day firms have in universal? the power to have readability of brain and objective while surrounded by way of chaos. to function at top functionality less than threat. so one can see sincerely while others are blinded by means of worry, and act while others are paralyzed. To craft plans in spite of incomplete info, then execute these plans decisively--while nonetheless being nimble and adaptable sufficient to iterate because the terrain alterations. To convey within the grasp. to construct groups with excessive effect, after which motivate these groups to keep on with you into the fire.

While so much of our jobs don’t contain best a journey of Marines via an ambush, or speeding right into a aid sector simply decimated by way of a storm, in modern-day fast moving, hyper-competitive enterprise setting, we're all at the entrance strains. And in an entrepreneurially-minded global the place expertise is continually reinventing how we paintings, international festival is fierce, and industries are being disrupted in a single day, luck calls for a brand new type of management. This e-book is set easy methods to turn into the type of chief who will get effects whilst the stakes are at their highest—how to Take Command.

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