THE LEADERSHIP BLOG
Making Deep Connections, Restoring Trust, & Leading from the Bottom Up
The Opposite of Fear
https://youtu.be/gUIUP5q992c The opposite of fear, is love. The greatest counter poised to fear the ancients believed is love, the love of the individual warrior for his brothers in arms. At Thermopylae, on the final morning when the last surviving Spartans knew...
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Every Breath is Precious
https://youtu.be/SbrEcMqoOko The thing that I learned that I want to talk about today as we go into Memorial Day is that “Every Breath is Precious”. Every breath we take in, every breath we let out is precious because our time on this earth is limited and we don't...
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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...
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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...
PCI’s: The Science of Getting Ready
https://youtu.be/DayTfX0oX9o I worked with a certain a team Sergeant that made sure we always accomplished our missions, we always got stuff done at a very high level and it was because we did the little things right, and that's the theme for this Rooftop Rally Point....
Rooftop Rally Point: Human Terrain – Reading People in the Room
https://youtu.be/cTnAJBdOZvo What I would like to get across in this Vlog, is the importance of “Human Terrain” in our work. In this day and age where we are so distracted, so disengaged, so distrustful of each other, we've become completely transactional at the...
Rooftop Rally Point:Leaders Recon – How to Win Before You Show Up
https://youtu.be/UHr7Bi4H3_8 https://youtu.be/UHr7Bi4H3_8 I want to talk about a lesson that I learned in special ops, one that is really pervasive in a lot of other military organizations. This lesson is one that I think can really help you have a competitive edge or...
Rooftop Rally Point – SLLS: Being Present in the Chaos
https://youtu.be/D4-pCcQO_Gg The title of this episode is SLLS: Being Present in the Chaos. The acronym stands for: Stop, Look, Listen and Smell, because all around us, chaos is going on. When you walk into a restaurant, just notice how people are, they're lost in...
Decisive Point
https://youtu.be/82p47ZdmKAM We are going to talk about how to use a “Decisive Point” to arrive at a solution for a complex problem. Now, in the last Vlog you heard me talk about “Unity of Effort”. It's taking all of the different participants in your organization,...
Battlefield to Boardroom: Unity of Effort
https://youtu.be/bxLoCuwvtcE One of the lessons that I talk about a lot in corporate America and in organizations from nonprofits to small businesses is this notion of what we call “Unity of effort”, in the military world. “Unity of Effort”, this timeless principle of...
Battlefield to Boardroom: METL “Mission Essential Task List”
https://youtu.be/pjs0BMDPer8 What is it that rings the bell for Your Organization? What are the things that if you don't do money doesn't come in, you don't achieve your mission? These thoughts took me back to a term that we use in the military. We call it METL....
Battlefield To Boardroom: Leadership Philosophy
https://youtu.be/LYPthuWZ48A As I moved on through my career, I saw leaders good and bad who would put out their leadership philosophy. It was something that I started to do myself as a team leader, as a company commander, and I saw the value in it because what it...
