Leadership Advice to my Former Self
Advice to my former self: Rewind the clock to November 5, 2012, the day Tatiana & I launched our first Fit Body location, I would have told myself to invest & focus on developing my leadership skills. As leadership (more than fitness/nutrition coaching) has been the biggest mover in growing my team and membership base. […]
The true goal of a leader
Simply put, to get people to do what they need to do to support the mission and team. As when the team wins, everyone wins. Simple but true. My question for you.. Are you working towards getting people to support the mission and team? If so, you are leading.. If not, get to it.
Decentralized Command.
One of the most important but underutilized elements of leadership. Meaning leaders create & support small teams of leaders who have the autonomy to make decisions to move the mission forward. As even the best leaders can only truly invest their time and knowledge into a handful of people. These people then lead their downline. […]
My biggest leadership secret?
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 […]
Leadership is always the problem and always the solution.
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
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 […]
No. 6 Default Aggressive – Effective leaders default aggressive
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 […]
No. 5 Detach – Effective leaders can remove emotion by detaching
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 […]
No. 4 Decentralized Command
As a continuation from the last 4 weeks, I read the expert from MSP magazine and wanted to share its break down. Number is 4 Decentralized Command and this is the sole purpose of me sending this weekly message to better your leadership. Why? Because Decentralized Command means everybody is a leader. That’s what you […]
The 3rd Law of Combat (and leadership) is Prioritize And Execute
As a continuation from the last 3 weeks, I read the expert from MSP magazine and wanted to share its break down. No. 3 Prioritize And Execute When Jocko ran these SEAL Leadership trainings, he went to great lengths to make them as realistic as possible. “We had high-speed paintball guns like real guns. Set […]