Extreme Ownership

"War is the realm of uncertainty"

- Carl von Clausewitz, On War

Insight: Clausewitz is often credited with the term "fog of war", although he never used the term.

• Insight: Leaders should delegate planning downwards as much as possible to create ownership.
• Insight: Delegation can give you power as you can "stand back and be the tactical genius".

• Insight: Humans (and animals) have to understand what they are being rewarded or punished for in order for operant conditioning to work. If the correlation between behaviour and consequence is not strong enough, behaviour change will not happen.