Leadership Lessons From the Military
Episode 72 of the Destination Business Freedom podcast, hosted by Pat Mancuso, titled "Leadership Lessons From the Military" was published on April 20, 2022 and runs 32 minutes.
April 20, 2022 ·32m · Destination Business Freedom
Episode Description
Marty Strong is a retired Navy SEAL officer and combat veteran. He is a novelist, a practicing CEO and Chief Strategy Officer, and the author of Be Nimble: How the Creative Navy SEAL Mindset Wins on the Battlefield and in Business, and a second book, Be Visionary: Strategic Leadership in the Age of Optimization, set for release in December 2022.
Marty's traveled to over forty countries, been shot at in a few, survived cancer twice, and experienced the loss of his oldest son. He has spent a lifetime meeting challenges head-on, succeeding in three professions, anticipating crisis, and leading through crisis and chaos.
Here's What We Cover
- The concept of a practicing CEO
- Combat leadership and how it applies to business leadership
- Knowing yourself in the moment is the biggest challenge for CEO's
- There is too much time spent on poor leaders
- In the military everyone is in charge at some point of something
- Interview other leaders to learn leadership
- 2 questions to ask every leader
- The importance of building benches
- You are always training your replacement
- Cost of enabling poor leaders
- Most companies have strategies written on a wall and never visited again
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