THE LEADERSHIP BLOG
Making Deep Connections, Restoring Trust, & Leading from the Bottom Up
Anger Makes You Stupid
https://youtu.be/yJc8OFGVhgI I would say it's always justified to be angry. I'm not a mental health professional, but I know that humans are emotional creatures and that an emotion is just that. It's something that washes over you. It's something that's calling for...
Steven Pressfield: A MAN AT ARMS
https://youtu.be/y7jAyTcarpw Steven Pressfield is one of the most prolific authors in America and a damn good friend to Rooftop Leadership. His insights into human behavior, human performance and human connections are remarkable. In this groundbreaking episode, Steve...
Nobody is Coming
https://youtu.be/fqbF-pNMCYo Leaders at all levels are giving their power away. If you don't believe me, look at the recent election and look at the way people are treating each other. Friends that have been friends for decades unfriending, at the minimum, all the way...
Hospitality: A Timeless Skill for Better Business Relationships
https://youtu.be/MMhIsWm0Gas Understanding the power of hospitality both as a giver and a receiver is a powerful skill. Hospitality has tremendous business impacts for you in the modern era, especially when you think about how trust depleted, how distracted, how...
The Hammer: The Wrong Tool for Today’s Business Leaders
https://youtu.be/WL_H7PHSA4k If the only tool in your kit bag is a hammer, then every problem you face in life is going to be a nail. We live in what I call the triple “P” environment. “Pissed off, Put upon, Pisces”. Two thirds of Americans don't trust their...
Reciprocity: How to Influence Without Being Creepy
Building rapport and understanding reciprocity is essential for leaders today. I don't care if you're the president of a commercial bank, I don't care if you're the founder of a nonprofit or if you work in sales, right? Your understanding of reciprocity is essential...
Relationships Before Transactions
https://youtu.be/EUcDxKrgnTc Always put “Relationships Before Transactions”. If you want to get “surrounded on purpose”, if you want to apply the “Lawrencian” skillset, if you want to establish rapport with a prospect and turn them into a client, if you want to keep a...
Finding Lawrence: Using story to lead people who don’t want to follow.
https://youtu.be/NRzz721pXY4 Have you ever heard of a guy named Lawrence of Arabia? What I am interested in and I think will serve you is the skill set that he used to build rapport, to establish relationships, and ultimately loyalty with very disparate, distrustful,...
Building Rapport
https://youtu.be/J4BSSe9FwH0 What does it take to establish rapport? Building Rapport is a critical skill for all business leaders, all entrepreneurs, anyone who has to deal with people. We are always faced with situations where we have to establish rapport....
Surrounded on Purpose
https://youtu.be/gH0Kqpgt2Ao On this episode of Rooftop Rally Point, we're talking about another principle of the Special Forces approach that you can use in life and business which is getting, “Surrounded on Purpose”. How do we get Surrounded on Purpose? Well,...
Work Yourself Out of a Job
https://youtu.be/OOd-mpnFZUg "Look sir, I think, right in this area here we're doing too much show and tell and we're not working ourselves out of a job." And I was like, "What do you mean?" And my old and wise Team Sergeant started to explain to me that, the most...
Shared Experience When Building a Team
https://youtu.be/ORnlV_pg0w8 Shared Experience When Building a Team As Green Berets building solid teams, we knew that the next best thing to shared struggle is shared experience. As humans, remember, we're the most social creatures on the planet, so we're always...
Soft Skills in Hard Places
https://youtu.be/maHkO6qrDJA Many leaders believe that "soft" skills, like active listening, narrative competence, interpersonal presence, they think that those skills, because they're called "soft skills", are secondary to the "hard skills", or that they convey a...