Like No Other Leadership Book You'll Read

I'm recommending Pete Blabler's new book, "The Mission, The Men, and Me" as a leadership book like no other you're likely to read.



The author recounts leadership lessons he mastered as a Delta Force commander. This is not really book about military battles -- he's focused on the mission planning and leadership responsibilities.

The title comes from some advice he received early in his Army career: The 3 Ms. Mission, then the Men, and then last, Me.

The insight he shares are tremendous for leaders in all kinds of situations, summarized into these pithy aphorisms:

• When in doubt, develop the situation.
• Always listen to the guy on the ground.
• Humor your imagination.
• It's not reality unless it's shared.
• Don't get treed by a chihuahua.

I'll leave it to you to get the book and understand how they engineered the only "Bigfoot" sighting in Bosnia as a means of slowing down a car long enough to capture the wanted war criminal inside.