THE LEADERSHIP BLOG
Making Deep Connections, Restoring Trust, & Leading from the Bottom Up
Leading Through Fear
https://youtu.be/43asgb1o9Cw We need leaders who can lead through fear because the reality is, fear is a normal human function. It kept us alive for hundreds of thousands of years. It is a fight, flight, or freeze thing. It is a primal reality. Fear motivates...
Self Sabotage: No One Wants to Hear This
https://youtu.be/t1dS7yxM-s4 We've talked about things that are too daunting. Overwhelming. We've talked about the “Imposter Syndrome”, talked about being “Too Busy” and now we're talking about, “No One Wants to Hear This”. That's another form of self-sabotage. It's...
Self Sabotage: Too Busy…
https://youtu.be/fNQqd_B0anw The “rat race”, the operational tempo that will dominate you, own you if you're not careful. It can make it very difficult to do what Rooftop Leaders are supposed to do, which is to play a bigger game. To serve a purpose bigger than...
Ladder Inspiration (Part 1)
https://youtu.be/VMLs5oGezkI To go up on that rooftop is to die. Right? That was a reality. As I was looking around in the middle of this firefight, it looked like a Star Wars movie. There were so many tracers going around the rooftops of these villages...
Clarity of Vision
https://youtu.be/19wYixZL3Jc I have no idea what my purpose is. I have no idea what I’m supposed to be doing here. I hear that a lot, actually. I travel around the country and I talk to folks about leadership and, you know, typically, I focus on, not so much...
Pursuit Of Purpose
https://youtu.be/LTWhlT3xyyQ “You know, more than anything else, I just want to matter. I just want to make a difference.” This is what my buddy Romy Camargo said to me some years ago. He was a Green Beret, a great friend of mine, served with me in 7th...
Abundance Over Scarcity
https://youtu.be/G8xURN-ki2Q “Ladies and gentlemen, I am stepping down as the CEO effective immediately.” When this guy—this senior leader of this publicly traded NASDAQ organization, multi-billion dollar revenue producing company—when this guy stepped down and...
Punching Above Your Weight
https://youtu.be/1QnQI08kT3k “Scott, I have no idea what I’ve gotten myself into here.” This was one of my coaching students who is in my Pathfinder Coaching and Mastermind Program—Carl. Carl is a law enforcement officer down in Texas. When I met Carl, one of...
Leading Through Change
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpC0T2kI3es I was absolutely terrified. I’m not kidding you, and it’s not something I take a lot of pride in saying as a career Green Beret but, four years ago, just down this river here when I retired at MacDill Air Force...
What It’s Going to Take to Lead Our Country | Part II
If you missed Part I of this series, make sure to start your leadership lesson there. "Listen, I don't care anything about the information operations you're going to do or how many villages you're going to build wells in. I want to know how many Taliban you're going...
What It’s Going to Take to Lead Our County | Part I
Around here, we talk about stuff that ranges from leading your family, to leading in the corporate world, to leading in your community and even leading in the world. Because to me, there's no difference between leaders without a title and leaders with a title. We all...
3 Steps to Avoid the Churn and Inspire Others
What's the churn? What I call the churn is the emergence of conflict in society as the default mechanism. That is to say, when trust erodes in a society, that's where we automatically go. We form in-groups and out-groups around the perception of scarcity, rivalry and...
Are You Building Relationships or Begging for Transactions?
Let me ask you a question: Do you want to be anywhere near someone who is purely transactional? Do you trust people who clearly just want to make the sale or get what they want? I sure don't. But the opposite is also true. Here's why. When I'm on the road it's tough...