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📘 '''''{{Tooltip|Extreme Ownership}}''''' is a leadership book by former U.S. Navy SEAL officers {{Tooltip|Jocko Willink}} and {{Tooltip|Leif Babin}} that translates combat-tested principles into practices for organizations and everyday life.<ref name="Mac2017">{{cite web |title=Extreme Ownership |url=https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250183866/extremeownership/ |website=us.macmillan.com |publisher=St. Martin's Press |date=21 November 2017 |access-date=10 November 2025}}</ref> Organized in three parts and twelve chapters—“Winning the War Within,” “Laws of Combat,” and “Sustaining Victory”—it sets out the laws Cover and Move, Simple, Prioritize and Execute, and Decentralized Command.<ref name="OCLC914256994" /> Each chapter pairs a {{Tooltip|Ramadi}} combat vignette with a distilled leadership principle and a short business application, giving the prose a debrief-room cadence.<ref name="NCO2018">{{cite web |title=Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win |url=https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Journals/NCO-Journal/Archives/2018/December/Extreme-Ownership-Book-Review/ |website=NCO Journal |publisher=Army University Press |date=10 December 2018 |access-date=10 November 2025}}</ref> An updated {{Tooltip|St. Martin’s Press}} edition appeared on 21 November 2017 with material linked to the follow-up book ''{{Tooltip|The Dichotomy of Leadership}}''.<ref name="Mac2017" /> The book saw early trade traction with multiple weeks on ''{{Tooltip|Publishers Weekly}}''’s Hardcover Nonfiction list in November–December 2015.<ref name="PW20151123">{{cite web |title=Publishers Weekly Bestseller Lists (Hardcover Nonfiction): Sales history for “Extreme Ownership” |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/nielsen/HardcoverNonfiction/20151123.html |website=Publishers Weekly |publisher=PWxyz, LLC |date=23 November 2015 |access-date=10 November 2025}}</ref> Its audience has persisted—e.g., the audiobook ranked in {{Tooltip|Apple Books}}’ U.S. Top 10 on 4 February 2025—and the authors’ company bills the work as a #1 ''{{Tooltip|New York Times}}'' bestseller.<ref name="AP2025">{{cite news |title=US-Apple-Books-Top-10 |url=https://apnews.com/article/26fb7c1a0ffee6924cae98fe618516bd |work=Associated Press |date=4 February 2025 |access-date=10 November 2025}}</ref><ref name="EF">{{cite web |title=Extreme Ownership |url=https://echelonfront.com/leadership-books/extreme-ownership/ |website=Echelon Front |publisher=Echelon Front LLC |access-date=10 November 2025}}</ref>

''This outline follows the {{Tooltip|St. Martin’s Press}} first-edition hardcover (20 October 2015; ISBN 978-1-250-06705-0).''<ref name="OCLC914256994" />

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