The Program: Lessons From Elite Military Units for Creating and Sustaining High Performance Leaders and Teams

In this Audiobook

• 1 - The Fundamentals of a Championship Culture
• 2 - Determining “Best”
• 3 - Defining “Best”
• 4 - Core Means Core!
• 5 - Recruiting and Hiring “Best”
• 6 - Talent Still Matters
• 7 - Determining Goals
• 8 - When Your Face a Hairpin Turn in the Road
• 9 - Determining Standards
• 10 - A Commitment to Goals and Standards
• 11 - Hold “Best” Accountable
• 12 - A Special Operations Teammate
• 13 - Meet the Standards: Be a Thumb Teammate
• 14 - Do Your Job! Agreed, Kinda…
• 15 - Winning Still Matters
• 16 - Great Teammates Hold One Another Accountable
• 17 - We Have Seen the Enemy
• 18 - The Price of Not Holding Teammates Accountable
• 19 - The Benefit of Team Accountability
• 20 - Nice and Kind
• 21 - How to Be Kind
• 22 - Wash Your Hands! Developing a Culture of Accountability
• 23 - Do Not “Lead by Example”
• 24 - Consistency Builds Trust
• 25 - Friend or Teammate?
• 26 - Wild-Goose Chase
• 27 - What is and isn't Leadership, and Who are and aren't Leaders?
• 28 - The Mission
• 29 - The First Standard of a Leader: Accomplish the Mission
• 30 - Leaders Ask “How?”
• 31 - The Little Things Take Care of the Big Things
• 32 - The Second Standard of a Leader: Take Care of Your Teammates
• 33 - Mission First, People Always
• 34 - Controlled and Uncontrolled Environments
• 35 - Developing Leaders
• 36 - The Power of Delegation
• 37 - Leadership is a Contact Sport
• 38 - The Roles of a Leader
• 39 - Mount Everest: Facing the Challenge
• 40 - The Case for Physical Fitness
• 41 - Defining Toughness
• 42 - A Light Switch, Not a Dial
• 43 - Toughness: A Learned Trait
• 44 - Developing Physical Toughness
• 45 - What is Mental Toughness, and When Do We Need It?
• 46 - Don't Rise to the Occasion
• 47 - Be Passionate, Not Emotional
• 48 - Choose a Positive Attitude
• 49 - Inoculate Against Stress
• 50 - Go or No Go?
• 51 - Go!
• 52 - The Death Zone
• 53 - The Summit, but Not Mission Accomplishment
• 54 - Mission Accomplished
• 55 - No Excuses
• 56 - A Life-Changing Explosion
• 57 - I Don't Have Enough Time
• 58 - Make Preparations, Not Excuses
• 59 - Being Motivated is Not Enough
• 60 - We Don't Get What We Deserve—We Get What We Earn!
• 61 - Don't Let Anyone Make Excuses for You
• 62 - A Female Marine in Helmand Province, Afganistan
• 63 - We Work Hard
• 64 - One More™ in a Combat Environment
• 65 - Long-Term Greedy
• 66 - Focus on Strengths, Address Weaknesses
• 67 - Determining Our “Why”
• 68 - The FET is a Target
• 69 - Alone on the Beach
• 70 - Using CLAPP to Communicte Effectively
• 71 - Listening to Understand
• 72 - Battelfield Communication
• 73 - Three Important Questions
• 74 - Tell Your Teammates What You Want Them to Do!
• 75 - Using a Back Brief
• 76 - Closed-Loop Communication
• 77 - Ignoring the Noise
• 78 - Putting the Communication Techniques Together