The ability to lead yourself. Sounds basic but it’s extremely true. When you develop the ability to lead yourself by creating discipline in your life (eating well, exercising, being an early riser and overall highly dependable). You will be able to accomplish many things from a productivity perspective as its first value point. But much…

In fact and in the words of Jocko Willink… There are no bad teams.  Rather, just bad leaders. That’s incredibly humbling, but also incredibly empowering. As the greater you lead yourself, the greater you can lead others. It starts with you. And once you accept this very difficult reality that your current leadership is the…

Communication is an ally of Leadership. The better communication skills you develop, the better leader you become. Why? At its root, Leadership is about creating clarity. Clarity for yourself, clarity for your team, clarity for your clients, clarity for your following. So the more effective communicator you are, the more clarity everyone has and consequently…

Simply put, effective leaders play to win. Thus, in order to win you must have a default aggressive. To provide some other perspective and in sales, there’s a famous quote saying “Timid Salesmen have skinny kids”. This is also true of leadership. This in mind, there’s many times as a leader it’s in the best…

Just when you thought we were complete with Jocko’s 4 laws of combat and leadership, I am here to exceed expectations and provide the final 2 and a summary from the notepad.com  Now on to lesson Number 5! In Leadership Strategy and Tactics: Field Manual, Jocko Willink compares two of his Platoon Commanders early in…