THE LEADERSHIP BLOG
Making Deep Connections, Restoring Trust, & Leading from the Bottom Up
Get Back Into the Game
https://youtu.be/w43pAIrU3nQ Everybody has challenges that have come out of this new time horizon. Even if you think you don't, when you have eight to nine weeks of mandated social distancing and isolation, it's going to have an effect on us as humans, right? So, the...
What’s Changed in Your Arena?
https://youtu.be/xM211qjehQc In Special Forces, Special Operations, we have these things called imperatives. These are the guidelines that move us through complexity, crisis, ambiguity. A lot of the same things that you're facing. The number one Special Ops...
Mistakes Leaders Make During Crisis
https://youtu.be/1wI_fVNDWX0 We all face crisis as leaders, as organizational leaders, certainly. We live in a dangerous world. We may think we're super sophisticated and we've got everything going on, but as we're seeing today with the coronavirus, with 9/11, with...
Deep Practice – the Art of Practice in Story
https://youtu.be/arXUXgqoqF0 If you ever look at a Pro, whatever the discipline may be, one element all pros share in common is their relationship to practice. Join me around the campfire in Old Florida as we talk about the art of practice in story. I...
Stories In Business
https://youtu.be/dMNQ83PtndM It’s a universal reality, whether you are in sales, law enforcement, manufacturing, services, or even teaching, stories are an integral part of how you do your business. Join me around the “campfire” in Old Florida and let’s...
The Heroes Journey
https://youtu.be/7-8ycb20W58 The Hero hears a call, reluctantly answers the call...and then embarks on a journey that will leave him forever transformed. Will you answer the call when it comes? Will you be able to find your voice and tell the story of...
Be Unreasonable
https://youtu.be/ak74J061N6w In this video, I want to share the skill of "Being Unreasonable", in pursuit of ideas and goals that may resist our efforts. Perhaps these goals will at some point become so important for us to reach that only our sheer...
Answer the Tap
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prUOSjUkbj4 Studies show that life is going to tap you on the shoulder two to three times in 2018. A pivotal moment is going to show up as a strategic opportunity. Will you be ready? Watch and share.
Mining Talent
https://youtu.be/BVHdwVyZFuE Hey Scott, I'm leaving. I'm putting in my paperwork man, I'm done. I was shocked when I was on a phone call with this guy; we'll call him Bob. Bob was one of the best Special Forces Officers I ever met. This guy, I talk about...
Meet Them Where They Are
https://youtu.be/mLj0czwbsJk "Hey Scott, can you help us understand the Millennials? I don't understand them. They don't get it. They don't get where we're coming from." If I had a dime for every time a senior leader has asked me that question, I would be the...
Relatable In The Room
https://youtu.be/CVIybcQECJQ You know, nobody in the TEDx audience at University of Arizona was moving. They were just spell struck as the Navy SEAL moved around the little red circle that they had put him in, and he was talking about forms of leadership, a...
Ladder Inspiration (Part 3)
https://youtu.be/GzdBWvDD1y4 So we were finally meeting with the elder that I had been wanting to meet with for a very long time. This guy was going to be instrumental in stabilizing this part of the district where Village Stability was going in, as I write...
Ladder Inspiration (Part 2)
https://youtu.be/mrXoc4zodxY "Hey, you know what? We don't want you here." This is what the villagers said to Mullah Mike. If you watched the last Blog that I did, Mullah Mike was a Special Forces Team Leader in rural Afghanistan. This is what he told me...