THE LEADERSHIP BLOG
Making Deep Connections, Restoring Trust, & Leading from the Bottom Up
Surrounded on Purpose
https://youtu.be/gH0Kqpgt2Ao On this episode of Rooftop Rally Point, we're talking about another principle of the Special Forces approach that you can use in life and business which is getting, “Surrounded on Purpose”. How do we get Surrounded on Purpose? Well,...
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Work Yourself Out of a Job
https://youtu.be/OOd-mpnFZUg "Look sir, I think, right in this area here we're doing too much show and tell and we're not working ourselves out of a job." And I was like, "What do you mean?" And my old and wise Team Sergeant started to explain to me that, the most...
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Shared Experience When Building a Team
https://youtu.be/ORnlV_pg0w8 Shared Experience When Building a Team As Green Berets building solid teams, we knew that the next best thing to shared struggle is shared experience. As humans, remember, we're the most social creatures on the planet, so we're always...
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Creating a Movement
https://youtu.be/g3BGumudkjo A movement is where people take action, in a collective way, that they otherwise wouldn't take in the face of high stakes, high risk, ambiguity and complexity. Yet they take a stand, shoulder to shoulder, and achieve a tipping point that...
MTWA: Meet Them Where They Are
https://youtu.be/261OuKq5Zpc Humans will not take action unless they feel psychologically safe, and unless they feel connected to the other humans around them. Humans will not take action of any kind, they won't buy from you, they won't invest in you, they won't...
Mission Decision Line: MDL
https://youtu.be/_KvZHCZelXM The “Mission Decision Line”, or the “MDL”, is the point of no return. It's a line on the ground, and on your map, it's like a valley, or a linear feature like a road, it's easily recognizable and it tells everybody from the...
Practice and Preparation
https://youtu.be/G25ITAo89uU If you want to move people to action it's those soft skills of storytelling, physicality, interpersonal connection, reciprocity, active listening, and negotiating that are the most effective, and you must practice those skillsets. ...
Storytelling and Leadership – With Story Expert, Kendall Haven (Part 2)
https://youtu.be/d_m0vATbSMs “The Proof, power, and purpose of how stories can help you make deeper connections and bigger impact in life and business.” In this second part of the hard-hitting interview with Kendall Haven, Scott will dive in with Kendall as they...
Storytelling and Leadership – With Story Expert, Kendall Haven (Part I)
https://youtu.be/Bha4imT330Q “The Proof, power, and purpose of how stories can help you make deeper connections and bigger impact in life and business.” Everywhere you look, people are talking about the power of story as a leadership and communication tool. Hell, it’s...
Intelligence Preparation: Knowing Your Client
https://youtu.be/0U2RrjutFVs Intelligence preparation. It is, the work you do on the front end before a mission to really get to know the terrain, the climate, the enemy, all of the things around you in your battle space that you need to be familiar with at a micro...
Speed of Trust: Bridging the Gap
https://youtu.be/QReDK4t_yRw We have an epic erosion of trust. At the institutional level, we don't trust the media like we used to, we don't trust politicians. We don't trust bankers, we don't trust the mortgage industry. All of these pillars of leadership that once...
Loneliness of Command: The Weight of Leadership
https://youtu.be/cDc8HMfEbTk I think in this day and age, one of the things that we fail to teach our young leaders as they are coming up in the ranks, is that there is a “Loneliness of Command”. There is a weight of leadership that one must bear when going...
Rooftop Rally Point – Battle Buddies: Getting Out of Your Own Way
https://youtu.be/9ax5E3FXV-s The subject of this particular video clip on the Rooftop Rally Point series is, “Battle Buddies: Getting Out of Your Own Way”. I thought telling the story of my Ranger Buddy, Cliff would be very appropriate because Cliff taught me...
