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    Unstoppable Teams: The Four Essential Actions of High-Performance Leadership

    By Alden Mills

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    About this ebook

    Three-time Navy SEAL platoon commander and founder of Perfect Fitness reveals how to put together teams that can accomplish any objective—by leveraging an unexpected set of values and priorities.

    SEALs and civilians operate in extremely different environments, but what makes both kinds of teams excel comes down to the same thing: service to others, trust, empathy, and a caring environment. Alden Mills has experience working in both the military and the private sector, as a SEAL platoon commander and as a startup founder of Perfect Fitness. He’s seen firsthand what it takes to lead an unstoppable team of individuals.

    Teams are nothing more than a series of interconnected relationships with a collective, single-minded focus. Success almost never depends on individual talent and valor; instead, Alden Mills shows, it depends, first, on creating a strong foundation for yourself and, second, using that foundation to help others go beyond their individual pursuits and talents to create something bigger and better—an unstoppable team.

    Unstoppable Teams show managers at every level, at both large and small organizations, including private, public, and nonprofit, how to inspire, motivate, and lead the people around them. Mills draws on stories from his own experiences to impart these surprising team-building lessons:

    • Too many people mistake groups of individuals for a team.
    • No two people are alike, but we all have the same genetic drivers that motivate us—our will to survive, our ego-driven desire for personal gain, and our soul-driven yearning to be a part of something greater than ourselves.
    • When we override our fears about survival, we can focus on our desire to thrive.
    • The more you care for your teammates, the more they will dare for the team.
    • Great ideas are not reserved for a select few—true teams embrace diversity of thought to find winning ideas.

    These lessons aren’t exclusive to the Navy SEALs; they are used by successful entrepreneurs, nonprofit leaders, coaches, and sport captains—and now you can master them too. Unstoppable Teams is the handbook for how to build care-based teams that will push people to achieve more than they ever thought possible.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateMar 26, 2019
    ISBN9780062876164
    Author

    Alden Mills

    ALDEN MILLS is a three-time Navy SEAL platoon commander, and was the CEO of Perfect Fitness, one of the fastest growing companies in America. He is also a longtime entrepreneur, with over 40 patents, and has over 25 years of experience working on high-performance leadership, sales, and team-building. Twitter: @aldenmills Facebook: UnstoppableAldenMills

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    • 5/5
      One the best leadership books I have ever read. This book bridges between Silos and Turf Wars and the Heart of Business.
      Love your team and take action around a crisis. Focus on your strengths and not your weaknesses.
    • 2/5
      Interesting book for beginner in Team management and team building
    • 3/5
      The introduction, first chapter and conclusion include fascinating glimpses into the life and thoughts of a navy seal commander. The general premise of the book is good and a quick summary of what it means to be a compassionate and driven leader. The framework feel flat for me though. As long as you subscribe to the “don’t be a dick” management philosophy, you probably do much of this already.
      I’m enamored with military leadership and have learned a lot from studying these men and women. No matter how hard I try though, most of the examples don’t translate well to the civilian business environment. The stakes are just too different. No matter how critical you are to your business, your absence will never be as critical as when a military leader is taken out or a team comes under fire. The book is worth a quick scan paying special attention to the beginning and end. The glimpses of Mr. Mills’ experiences are truly fascinating, well written and worth the read.