Courage to Execute: What elite U.S. military units can teach business about leadership and team performance

Acknowledgments

I'd like to thank the many men and women who, over the past 18 years, have had an effect on this book. Countless fighter pilots and special operations professionals have come through our doors at Afterburner and have all contributed to this work and the Flawless Execution model.

We have also learned so much from our clients as they have leveraged and deployed these techniques in every type of business in every corner of the globe. Flawless Execution is a never-ending journey to find the best way to improve efficiently on the battlefield, in the marketplace, or in life. It's a collective work of lessons from practitioners who are not academic but pragmatic in using techniques that drive results. Our practitioners hail from elite military teams, surgical teams, and teams operating in high-risk environments, as well as the most successful of capital enterprises, all the way to the NFL.

A special thank-you to my writing partners, Alvin Townley and Will Duke, who have taken our model and captured its true essence of using simplicity to combat complexity.

And I would like to dedicate this book to the brave men and women serving in our military as well as my loving father, who has taught me so much about family, pursuit, and happiness.

—Murph