Leadership Is Overrated, Kyle Buckett
Leadership Is Overrated, Kyle Buckett
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Leadership Is Overrated
How the Navy SEALs (and Successful Businesses) Create Self-Leading Teams That Win

Author: Kyle Buckett, Chris Mefford

Narrator: Jamie Renell

Unabridged: 8 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperOne

Published: 08/29/2023

Synopsis

An award-winning pair of executive consultants reveal why to be successful, businesses need self-leading teams, not just good leadership. “In a society so obsessed with leadership, why are we so bad at it?”Despite the countless seminars, courses, and management books designed to hone good leaders, over 79% of employees leave their jobs due to poor leadership. Why is this happening? Award-winning executive consultant Chris Mefford and retired, high-ranking US Navy SEAL trainer Kyle Buckett argue that organizations need more than just leaders. They need successful teams.Mefford and Buckett are passionate about how our leadership model has failed and spotlight a new work culture that actually works. In Leadership Is Overrated, they draw on the SEAL model and on their decades of knowledge and experience coaching industry leaders to answer the question: what makes a productive team? The surprising truth is that behind every successful team is a cadre of empowered, self-starting employees.In this revolutionary guide, Mefford and Buckett share crucial leadership strategies to help organizations revamp their work culture, throw out stifling hierarchical leadership models, and embrace a dynamic, results-oriented, and successful self-led team-oriented model instead.

About Kyle Buckett

Kyle Buckett is a retired US Navy SEAL and led the advanced training for both junior and seasoned Navy SEALs, ranked number one of nine highly competitive Platoon Chiefs, and has been instrumental in the business development of numerous Navy SEAL-founded businesses. He runs Culture Force, a consulting company with Chris, and is also regularly involved in numerous charities supporting veterans from the special forces communities.

About Chris Mefford

Chris Mefford is a seasoned, award-winning business executive with over twenty years of experience in marketing. Mefford has been the Vice President of the Dave Ramsey Organization and co-founded and runs Culture Force, a consulting firm that promotes intense coaching and training programs to help companies grow and evolve their cultures.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mike

I feel the book is titled wrong based on the content. The authors don’t communicate that leadership is overrated, but that a single, central leader holds a team back more than if leadership is shared and shifts with circumstances. Great content that is well organized and will assist anyone working o......more

Goodreads review by Yeti_2_read

Buckett and Mefford take a distributed leadership approach to building and sustaining teams, in effect saying that traditional top-down leadership is overrated and self-led teams are the future. Marching through the process of defining, developing, and sustaining self-led teams that win, the author......more

Goodreads review by Larry

This book is for everyone! First, it describes the need for small self-led teams across all sizes of organizations. Small is the source of flexibility, speed, and responsiveness. But know that to build that self-led skill takes time and training to get to full stride. The authors thoroughly develop......more

Goodreads review by Charles

Great book with an interesting take on leadership, teams and culture. I enjoyed the way Kyle and Chris examined the extensive focus on leadership training versus the lack of culture and team development. I really feel like the authors value leadership, but know that we all have leadership potential......more

Goodreads review by Gary

It’s one of the best leadership books I have read. Many leadership books focus on what to do when leading others. Without effective self-leadership you will never achieve the leadership level you desire. An excellent read with compelling stories throughout.......more

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