No Excuse Leadership

No Excuse Leadership: Lessons from the U.S. Army's Elite Rangers is the first book to illuminate the best leadership school in the US Army -- Ranger School. No Excuse Leadership, puts the reader at ground level, and drives home 11 leadership principles through impactful, first person anecdotes. Each chapter focuses on one Ranger School graduate and highlights one of many leadership traits within each story. The content of No Excuse Leadership is made up of the stories of 11 graduates, stories that are down-in-the-mud fun, eye opening and illustrative. The book has it all, guys from the Ranger Battalions, West Point, ROTC, and more. They relate different aspects of how they decided to go, how they prepared, what experiences they had at the School, and how the lessons they learned have helped them in their personal and professional lives. Leaders and managers face those inevitable times in their organizations when they must brace for turbulent weather, be ready for heavy workloads and unforeseen troubles. Leaders will have to rely on themselves, and more importantly, their work force. In No Excuse Leadership the reader will see the kind of person you have to be in those difficult times. They will discover the mindset that made people successful in Ranger School and the difference between those who simply survived and those that thrived.