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Summary: This is the good one.....
Review: Even if you are not the leader of your team/group/posse, whatever, this is a great book to help you to BECOME that leader. This is a straightahead, no nonsense book which makes you look at yourself and where you want to be, and what you want to do and best of all, makes you think. It is not an answer book, that is for sure, so be ready to think fast.
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Summary: Practical application in specific situtations
Review: I attended a military service academy and received much formalized leadership training. Most of this training was geared for what worked in the sterile corporate environment of officership. That training had its merits for its intended purpose. I now own a large contracting company. Those lessons don't work well for the crews in the field. Marcinko's lessons are much more applicable. Marcinko is rude, crude, testosterone laden - but most importantly effective. He understood his audience and what worked and what didn't. This is the key. I require all my job foreman to read this book. To management level personnel I'll give Steven Covey - but not to the guys who sweat & bleed for a living and have to get others to do the same.
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Summary: Practical application in specific situtations
Review: I attended a military service academy and received much formalized leadership training. Most of this training was geared for what worked in the sterile corporate environment of officership. That training had its merits for its intended purpose. I now own a large contracting company. Those lessons don't work well for the crews in the field. Marcinko's lessons are much more applicable. Marcinko is rude, crude, testosterone laden - but most importantly effective. He understood his audience and what worked and what didn't. This is the key. I require all my job foreman to read this book. To management level personnel I'll give Steven Covey - but not to the guys who sweat & bleed for a living and have to get others to do the same.
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Summary: Lead!
Review: I've read many "leadership" books, but Marcinco's book makes the top 10. Yeah, there's tons of books that teach the fundamentals of being a leader, yet Marcinco drives at the practicality of being a leader. Instead of hiding behind the desk, a leader needs to be leading the team. Whether that is with vision for your company or an attack plan for your military troop. Half the battles we fight in corporate America are the agendas hiding behind the lines. This book might rub you wrong, heck it rubbed me wrong right off the bat. But when it comes down to it, this book will kick you right where you need to be: A Leader!
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Summary: No Bull Leadership
Review: If you are tired of books that are full of the latest fads in business management-- meaningless buzzwords and philosophies that only add a layer of confusion between a manager and his workers-- this is the book to read.Commander Marcinko knows that if you want to get people to perform toward a common result, they need a person they can trust, who knows the situations they're facing, and looks out for their welfare. In short, a leader. This is the kind of info that works-- always has and always will. Regardless of the industry or work enviroment you are in, these proven ideas apply. (If you don't think they will, then you better evaluate yourself as a leader!). Buy it, read it and read it again, and pass it around-- it's the perfect answer to those of you who feel they're living in a Dilbert comic strip.
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Summary: Sorting the Leaders from the Wanna-Bes
Review: In modern corporate America, we have a breed of people who talk tough at the bar or in their office, but rarely put any muscle behind the talk. The hardest lesson of Marcinko's book is in fact the best one: You must be ready to risk everything you've accomplished in order to succeed even further. The difference between the leaders and the wanna-bes who just play the game is that the leaders don't talk about their philosophy, they just live it and they aggressively confront those obstacles. The wanna-bes talk about their philosophy, but when it comes time for the show-down, they're nowhere to be found. This book forces you to take a look at how you do business and be honest with yourself about how you can do it better.
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Summary: Entertaining application of Marcinko's SpecWar learnings
Review: It's common enough for business leaders to resort to military metaphors for "conquering the marketplace", and rare enough for them to be able to speak with credibility in the same fashion. An interesting blend of military aphorism and business practice, this book will probably only appeal to those who have read other Rogue Warrior works - but take the rules to heart, for they are true on any battlefield you may face. Corporate and military organizations are both often plagued with politicking and similar counterproductive BS, and Richard Marcinko famously decries all that to focus on results - as any leader should.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: It's common enough for business leaders to resort to military metaphors for "conquering the marketplace", and rare enough for them to be able to speak with credibility in the same fashion. An interesting blend of military aphorism and business practice, this book will probably only appeal to those who have read other Rogue Warrior works - but take the rules to heart, for they are true on any battlefield you may face. Corporate and military organizations are both often plagued with politicking and similar counterproductive BS, and Richard Marcinko famously decries all that to focus on results - as any leader should.
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Summary: Outstanding "Lead from the Front" advice
Review: Should be required reading for all managers. Lead from the front. Lead by example. Take care of your people. Great advice that - too often - goes unheeded. This should be a classic management text!
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Summary: Dick is not a businessman
Review: Sorry, but I know Mr. Marcinko (on a casual basis) and I know many of his former TEAM warriors on a more professional basis. Dick is an EXCEPTIONAL conflict commander, but this skillset does not transfer to a business environment. As much as middle managers want to beleive (and in some cases dickweed executive management) that they are warfighters within their overblown egos...they are not. Warfighting and business are two totaly dicotomous activities. Business, by its nature, is meant to further the business goals of an organization. War, on the converse, is designed to subjugate an enemy. Tell me, is there any commonality? Doubtful. And, if business leaders actually find common theology with 'Dick', Sun Tsu, or Causawitz, then they need to enter physco therapy as soon as possible... a serious Nepolianic complex In war, combatants are able to achieve objects by 'any means neccessary'. This is not the case in business, if for no other reason than human decency with interject boundries... I am not a fan of any military doctrine being applied to 'making money'...wrong, wrong wrong. Other than the core of this book. the stories are fun, but have nothing to do with business... if they do, then we (as a nation) have moved into a sorry state of "win at any cost" and, that is very depressing.
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