Book club selection (via POC; session held 29 October 2017).
While traveling with D'backs, POC had gone with a group to visit a Navy SEALs post in San Diego; they recommended this book. The ex-SEAL authors run a consulting business - they try to translate SEALs training/methods to business clients. That's what the book is about.
The consulting business stuff was so-so - while the case studies rang true, the too-tidy application of very general principles did not. (But I'm not a fan of business books in general - typically an individual or an entity experiences some success, then looks back and tries to guesstimate what made the difference; then to monetize the advice. Not a winning formula.)
The book's value to me was glimpsing a world that is so incredibly different from the lives most of us lead. Setting aside the politics ("why are we sending soldiers to these countries") - the guys that go execute these misbegotten missions are exposed to dangers I cannot imagine.
Some of it reminds of what one reads about training of elite athletes - but then you realize the SEALs-types execute their tasks in the face of live ammo sent their direction by entirely unfriendly folks - amazing.
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