During the brutal crucible of Navy SEAL training, instructors often tell students to “embrace the suck.” This phrase conveys the one lesson vital for any SEAL hopeful to learn: to lean into the suffering and get comfortable being very uncomfortable. In this powerful, no-nonsense guide, Navy SEAL combat veteran turned leadership expert teaches you how to transform every area of your life—the Navy SEAL way.
How can anyone develop the mental fortitude necessary to dominate their battlefield? Gleeson breaks it down to a Challenge-Commitment-Control mindset. He reveals how resilient people view difficulties as a Challenge, where obstacles and failures are a blessing and opportunity for growth. Next, they have a strong emotional Commitment to their goals and are not easily distracted or deterred. Finally, resilient people focus their energy on things within their Control, rather than fixating on factors they can’t impact.
Embrace the Suck provides an actionable roadmap that empowers you to expand your comfort zone to live a more fulfilling, purpose-driven life. Through candid storytelling, behavioral science research, and plenty of self-deprecating humor, Gleeson shows you how to use pain as a pathway, reassess your values, remove temptation, build discipline, suffer with purpose, fail successfully, transform your mind, and achieve more of the goals you set.
Through candid storytelling, behavioral science research, fascinating historical references and plenty of self-deprecating humor, Gleeson shows the reader how to:
– The ETS Pain Transformation Process
– Great, So What Now? Recommended actions steps
– Story
– Unfuck yourself and move on
– The values-check playbook
– Perspective, focus, follow-through
– How to fail successfully
– Grit and resilience training module
– Finding passion & purpose in your suffering
– Mechanisms for improving discipline; characteristics of winners
– ETS Outcomes Pyramid & Execution Framework – Goals & Planning
– Working backwards from the end
Decorated Navy SEAL, successful businessman and world-renowned speaker Brent Gleeson shares his revolutionary approach to navigating and leading change in the workplace. 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. 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. 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.
Quite simply, this is one of the best leadership books I have ever read! If you’re seeking to transform your organization and build a culture of trust, courage, and accountability – this is the playbook! The principles in TakingPoint are essential to achieve peak performance and can be applied by an individual leader of a team or more broadly across an entire organization. I am very impressed with Brent’s business acumen and how he integrated his knowledge and experience as a Navy SEAL and as a business leader into the important lessons covered in the book. TakingPoint is required reading for all leaders!
– Gregory C. Magee, Comcast
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Brent Gleeson is a Navy SEAL combat veteran with multiple combat tours to Iraq and Africa and other theaters of war. Upon leaving SEAL Team 5, Brent turned his discipline and battlefield lessons to the world of business and has become an award-winning entrepreneur, bestselling author, and acclaimed speaker and consultant on topics ranging from leadership and building high-performance teams to culture and organizational transformation.
Brent is the Founder and CEO of TakingPoint Leadership, a progressive leadership and management consulting firm with a focus on business transformation and building high-performance cultures. Brent holds degrees in finance and economics from Southern Methodist University, certificates in English and History from Oxford University in England and a graduate business degree from the University of San Diego. He is the bestselling author of TakingPoint: A Navy SEAL’s 10 Fail Safe Principles for Leading Through Change, which was a #1 New Release on Amazon in Organizational Change and Business Structural Adjustment.
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