CULTURE
FIRST

Every organization has a culture. The question is whether you built it intentionally or whether it installed itself through accumulated habits and unenforced standards.

Culture First distills four decades of observation at the highest levels of military and law enforcement into nine battle-tested practices. From Delta Force selection to the Paris BRI assault on the Bataclan, from a Navy submarine collision to the FBI Hostage Rescue Team, Jon Becker draws on the world's most pressure-tested organizations to show what separates elite teams from everyone else.

The nine practices are not complicated to understand. The hard part is actually doing them — day after day, when it's inconvenient, when it's uncomfortable, when it would be easier to let standards slide. What separates elite organizations isn't secret knowledge. It's the discipline to execute consistently over time.

Available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and self-narrated audiobook.