by Wes Dearth | Jul 11, 2017 | Human Connection, Leaderships Skills, Trust Restoration
“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 that most...
by Wes Dearth | Jun 28, 2017 | Articles, Human Connection, Trust Restoration
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 from Taliban fire that it...
by Wes Dearth | Jun 1, 2017 | Human Connection, Leaderships Skills, Trust Restoration
“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 Special Forces Group on...
by Wes Dearth | May 17, 2017 | Human Connection, Leaderships Skills, Trust Restoration
“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 made that announcement, the...
by Wes Dearth | May 9, 2017 | Human Connection, Leaderships Skills, Trust Restoration, Video
“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 the things that struck me...
by Wes Dearth | May 3, 2017 | Articles, Human Connection, Leadership Events, Leaderships Skills, Media, Trust Restoration, Video
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 Base after almost 23 years in the Army, the...