Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin:
PRINCIPLE
What’s the mission?Planning begins with mission analysis. Leaders must identify clear directives for the team. Once they themselves understand the mission, they can impart this knowledge to their key leaders and frontline troops tasked with executing the mission.
Ridgeline by Michael Punke:
Red Cloud had learned the virtue of patience over the years—or at least resigned himself to the need for it. As he waited, he found it particularly difficult to apply in practice. Others—like Crazy Horse and High Backbone and Big Nose—would do the fighting. His responsibility was different, and it was difficult to adjust to this new role. His responsibility today was not to fight, but to watch … to observe and to think.
Twenty-Seven Articles by T.E. Lawrence
Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than that you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not to win it for them. Actually, also, under the very odd conditions of Arabia, your practical work will not be as good as, perhaps, you think it is.