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Books like Extreme Ownership
The best books like Extreme Ownership are Turn the Ship Around!, Team of Teams, and The Score Takes Care of Itself. Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin is about leadership, accountability, ownership. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Turn the Ship Around!
- Team of Teams
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Stanley McChrystal · Business
Team of Teams is General Stanley McChrystal's account of how he restructured the Joint Special Operations Task Force in Iraq to fight an enemy — Al-Qaeda in Iraq — that was organized in ways the conventional military hierarchy was too slow to counter.
Both dig into leadership.
Read the summary → - The Score Takes Care of Itself
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The Score Takes Care of Itself
Bill Walsh · Business
The Score Takes Care of Itself is the account of Bill Walsh's leadership philosophy, assembled from his writings and interviews by Steve Jamison and Craig Walsh after Walsh's death in 2007.
Both dig into leadership.
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- Leaders Eat Last
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Simon Sinek · Business
Leaders Eat Last is Simon Sinek's argument that the best organizations run on a feeling he calls the Circle of Safety — an environment where people trust that the people above them in the hierarchy have their interests at heart.
Both dig into leadership.
Read the summary → - Crucial Accountability
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Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler · Business
Crucial Accountability is the sequel to Crucial Conversations, narrowing its focus from high-stakes dialogue to one specific problem: what to do when someone fails to meet an expectation.
Shares leadership and accountability with Extreme Ownership.
Read the summary → - Good Authority
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Jonathan Raymond · Business
Good Authority is Jonathan Raymond's argument that the real job of a manager is not to produce results directly but to use the work as a vehicle for people's personal and professional development.
Shares leadership and accountability with Extreme Ownership.
Read the summary → - Leadership Is Language
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L. David Marquet · Business
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Shares leadership and accountability with Extreme Ownership.
Read the summary → - Measure What Matters
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John Doerr · Business
Measure What Matters is John Doerr's account of Objectives and Key Results — the goal-setting framework he learned from Andy Grove at Intel, carried to Google in 1999, and has since deployed across hundreds of companies and nonprofits.
Shares leadership and accountability with Extreme Ownership.
Read the summary → - Multipliers
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Liz Wiseman · Business
Multipliers is Liz Wiseman's exploration of a striking leadership pattern: some leaders make the people around them smarter, more capable, and more engaged, while other leaders — often equally intelligent and well-intentioned — make the people around them dumber, more dependent, and less confident.
Shares leadership and team performance with Extreme Ownership.
Read the summary → - The Culture Engine
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S. Chris Edmonds · Business
The Culture Engine is S.
Shares leadership and team performance with Extreme Ownership.
Read the summary → - The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
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The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
Patrick Lencioni · Business
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team is Patrick Lencioni's argument that most teams fail not because of strategy, talent, or resources, but because of five specific, predictable behavioral problems that compound on each other.
Shares leadership and accountability with Extreme Ownership.
Read the summary → - Accelerate
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Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim · Business
Accelerate is the research-backed account of what actually makes software delivery teams fast without sacrificing stability.
Both dig into leadership.
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Books like Extreme Ownership: quick answers
What are the best books like Extreme Ownership?
The best books like Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin are Turn the Ship Around! by L. David Marquet, Team of Teams by Stanley McChrystal, The Score Takes Care of Itself by Bill Walsh, Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek, Crucial Accountability by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Extreme Ownership, such as leadership, accountability, ownership.
What should I read after Extreme Ownership?
A natural next read after Extreme Ownership is Turn the Ship Around! by L. David Marquet. Both dig into leadership. Other strong choices are Team of Teams by Stanley McChrystal, The Score Takes Care of Itself by Bill Walsh, Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek.
What books are similar to Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin?
Extreme Ownership centers on leadership, accountability, ownership. Books with a similar feel include Turn the Ship Around! by L. David Marquet, Team of Teams by Stanley McChrystal, The Score Takes Care of Itself by Bill Walsh, Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek, Crucial Accountability by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler, Good Authority by Jonathan Raymond — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
