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Where Should the Leader Be When the Action is Happening?
Sometimes a leader may be in a situation where they think they should be, or feel it's important to be. But other individual leaders or members of the team may feel the opposite. For us as leaders, when we are trying our best to influence, have a presence that implies we care and engenders trust, but are a little bit waved off by the team?
Presence is a huge factor. Whether you're on the phone or in person, how you show up matters. Are you PRESENT? Are you paying attention to what your team is saying to you?
Along those lines, we have to always have in mind what the team needs. Not what we need, what THEY need. Is my presence needed here? Is my presence supporting my team, or suffocating them and their progress?
We hope you enjoy this great discussion!
17 Aug 2026
Brilliance in the Fundamentals
The principles we talk about during this episode can be applied anywhere - to learning anything, to keeping a cool head when things go wrong, to being resilient, and to the importance of knowing the fundamentals.
Land navigation is a course everyone who goes through any Special Operations training must go through. Candidates are given a map, a compass, a protractor, and a 10-digit grid point that should bring them within 1 meter of the actual point they're supposed to find, under a specific time limit. Go do it.
This exercise tests the capacity to learn, independence, and resilience, and core understanding of the fundamentals. A place where the basics are crucial and essential - just like in life.
3 Aug 2026
Self-Improvement vs. Self-Obsessed
For any high performer, working on improving ourselves or learning something is a near-constant activity. At what point do those activities become something to fill our ego, versus truly allowing us to have an integrated life? Optimization for optimizations sake?
We need to figure out ways to make these activities woven into our everyday lives and habits. We also need to know our objectives as to why we want to improve something. There are real things that are asked of us by our families and teammates, where we want to be our best to those we care about. To prepare for those moments, we need to know which activities make us resilient, healthy, and great at life.
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