THE LEADERSHIP BLOG
Making Deep Connections, Restoring Trust, & Leading from the Bottom Up
3 Ways Change Can Freak Your People Out
https://youtu.be/zX7QsjMciqw I understand that as you're watching this, you're a leader who was faced with some really tough decisions in 2020. If you were a business owner, you looked at pay cuts, you looked at payroll issues, maybe layoffs. If you were a team...
Resolutions Fail: Try This In 2021 Instead
https://youtu.be/afRrgHrmD0Q According to British psychologist Richard Wiseman, 88% of people who make New Year's resolutions fail in those resolutions. Those are not good odds, especially coming out of a year like 2020. If we want to make a deeper impact, a bigger...
How Will You Say Goodbye to 2020?
https://youtu.be/Si8MG2WY20Q Hey, Rooftop leaders! Let me ask you a question as I welcome you to 2021, how are you saying goodbye to 2020? When we say things like, “I just can't wait for the year to be in my rear-view mirror”, or “I just want to put it behind me”, or...
Storytelling and Leadership – With Story Expert, Kendall Haven (Part 2)
https://youtu.be/d_m0vATbSMs “The Proof, power, and purpose of how stories can help you make deeper connections and bigger impact in life and business.” In this second part of the hard-hitting interview with Kendall Haven, Scott will dive in with Kendall as they...
Storytelling and Leadership – With Story Expert, Kendall Haven (Part I)
https://youtu.be/Bha4imT330Q “The Proof, power, and purpose of how stories can help you make deeper connections and bigger impact in life and business.” Everywhere you look, people are talking about the power of story as a leadership and communication tool. Hell, it’s...
Intelligence Preparation: Knowing Your Client
https://youtu.be/0U2RrjutFVs Intelligence preparation. It is, the work you do on the front end before a mission to really get to know the terrain, the climate, the enemy, all of the things around you in your battle space that you need to be familiar with at a micro...
Speed of Trust: Bridging the Gap
https://youtu.be/QReDK4t_yRw We have an epic erosion of trust. At the institutional level, we don't trust the media like we used to, we don't trust politicians. We don't trust bankers, we don't trust the mortgage industry. All of these pillars of leadership that once...
Loneliness of Command: The Weight of Leadership
https://youtu.be/cDc8HMfEbTk I think in this day and age, one of the things that we fail to teach our young leaders as they are coming up in the ranks, is that there is a “Loneliness of Command”. There is a weight of leadership that one must bear when going...
Rooftop Rally Point – Battle Buddies: Getting Out of Your Own Way
https://youtu.be/9ax5E3FXV-s The subject of this particular video clip on the Rooftop Rally Point series is, “Battle Buddies: Getting Out of Your Own Way”. I thought telling the story of my Ranger Buddy, Cliff would be very appropriate because Cliff taught me...
PCI’s: The Science of Getting Ready
https://youtu.be/DayTfX0oX9o I worked with a certain a team Sergeant that made sure we always accomplished our missions, we always got stuff done at a very high level and it was because we did the little things right, and that's the theme for this Rooftop Rally Point....
Rooftop Rally Point: Human Terrain – Reading People in the Room
https://youtu.be/cTnAJBdOZvo What I would like to get across in this Vlog, is the importance of “Human Terrain” in our work. In this day and age where we are so distracted, so disengaged, so distrustful of each other, we've become completely transactional at the...
Rooftop Rally Point:Leaders Recon – How to Win Before You Show Up
https://youtu.be/UHr7Bi4H3_8 https://youtu.be/UHr7Bi4H3_8 I want to talk about a lesson that I learned in special ops, one that is really pervasive in a lot of other military organizations. This lesson is one that I think can really help you have a competitive edge or...
Rooftop Rally Point – SLLS: Being Present in the Chaos
https://youtu.be/D4-pCcQO_Gg The title of this episode is SLLS: Being Present in the Chaos. The acronym stands for: Stop, Look, Listen and Smell, because all around us, chaos is going on. When you walk into a restaurant, just notice how people are, they're lost in...