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More About This Title Elite: High Performance Lessons and Habits from aFormer Navy SEAL
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Proven tools to take your team and yourself to the next level
Elite: High Performance Lessons and Habits from a Former Navy SEAL is a practical, no-nonsense guide to elevate your leadership skills and drive your team to their maximum potential. Before you can push your team to the max, you must push yourself—elite teams require elite leaders. This invaluable guide supplies the tools you need to develop effective strategies to motivate, adapt, and overcome. Author Nick Hays combines military training with Harvard education to present a comprehensive program that will unlock the potential in yourself and your team.
The business environment has changed dramatically over the last several decades. Volatile market conditions, disruptive innovation, and digital transformations across entire sectors have rendered traditional business methods obsolete. To thrive, businesses must be adaptable, agile, and lean. Policies and procedures may change, but strong leadership and shared goals ensure a source of strength and continuity. Providing real-world methods and effective strategies, this essential resource will allow you to:
- Embrace the Warrior Mindset to always be proactive, never a victim
- Develop the trust of your team through strength and shared experience
- Devise durable and sustainable business strategies and contingency plans that adapt to fluid situations
- Promote a culture of innovation and authenticity to deliver a solid foundation for your team
Elite: High Performance Lessons and Habits from a Former Navy SEAL is a must-read guide for everyone from aspiring entrepreneurs to established business leaders. No matter the stage of your business—development, exploitation, or disruption—Elite will change your approach to business and unlock the warrior within.
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NICK HAYS served as a Navy SEAL for 10 years and was awarded the Bronze Star. After the Navy, he worked as a contractor in the Middle East before attending Harvard Business School.Today, Nick is passionate about helping organizations adapt to a rapidly changing global context and meet the need for constant innovation. His focus is on giving teams and leaders tools to function at the highest level.
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Introduction 5
Joined the Military 6
Set Backs 8
A Navy SEAL and Beyond 11
Formal Education 13
Carrier Change 15
Fail Between the Lines 17
What to Expect 17
1 Remove the Dead Weight 20
Creating a Masterpiece 20
Assets and Liabilities 22
The Backpack 23
Evaluate the Weight 25
2 No More Excuses 28
Fall from Perfect 29
Take Action 30
Find Your Optimal Performance 31
Inverted U and Stress Control 31
Find Peace in Admitting Your Fear 33
The Potential of Failure is Not an Excuse 34
3 Take Control of Your Thoughts 36
The Confidence Dial 36
Insecurity 37
Replace Negative Thoughts with Positive Thoughts 40
Put things into Perspective 41
Levity 43
Make Big things Small 44
Arrogance 46
Be Confident, Not Arrogant 47
Humility 48
4 Be Mentally Tough 51
Climbing High 51
Humble Beginnings 52
A Long Way to Go 53
The Assent 54
In Over Our Heads 56
Final Stretch 57
Lessons Learned 58
Crawl Walk Run 59
5 Choosing the Warrior Mentality 62
Marathon is Half the Word 62
Be Better Today than Yesterday 66
Almost a Victim 67
Look Forward, not back. 69
My Accelerator Moment 70
6 Be Self Aware 74
What is your personality type? 75
Choleric 76
Sanguine 77
Phlegmatic 78
Melancholic 79
Know Where You’re Coming From 79
Play Well with Others 81
7 Surround Yourself with the Right People 84
It starts with Authenticity 85
Relationships: The Expanding Circle 86
Network: Your Expanding Circle 87
Middle Circle: Personal Board of Advisors 89
Inner Circle: Your friends 90
In Practice 91
Accept Feedback 93
Start Building 94
8 Pursue Mentorship 96
Mistakes were Made 97
Learning Curve Cost 98
Value of a Mentor 100
Course Correction 100
Choosing a Mentor 102
Let Your Mentor Know 103
Elite Mentors create Elite Mentors 103
How To Mentor Others 104
9 Continually Improve Your Situation 107
The SEAL Delivery Vehicle 107
A Frogman Story 109
Under Pressure 111
To Die Fast or Die Slow 112
Maximize your Upside, Minimize your Downside 113
Ownership 115
Lessons Learned 117
10 Decision Making 119
O.O.D.A. Loop 120
Loop vs Loop 121
When to Pivot 122
Train how you Fight 124
The Speed of your Loop 125
The Quality of your Loop 126
In Practice 127
11 Guard Your Time 130
Social Media 131
In the Workplace 133
Find Your “Why” 134
12 Guard Your Mind 138
Hell Week 138
Not Your Average Joe 140
The Rubber Meets the Road 142
Protect your Mental Hard Drive 147
Localize your Data 148
13 Whatever It Takes 152
Taking Command of my Life 152
A Very Long Day 154
Be Unbeatable 159
Identifying the Enemy 160
Dealing with the Enemy 161
Focus on the Goal, No Matter What 162
What’s Next? 164
Acknowledgments 165
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