Yesterday I attended the Chick-Fil-A Leadercast along with the entire Rocket Company team. The following is a series of posts from the leadership learnings from the day.
The afternoon’s final session featured Navy SEAL LCDR Rorke Denver. LCDR Denver is a true American hero and gave arguably the most inspirational presentation of the day.
The following thoughts from LCDR Roarke should be read by all leaders:
- I like explaining the quitting policy early on.
- What differentiates SEALS from other units is our training.
- As a leader, one of the funnest things about SEAL training is we go through the training with them.
- Everyone keeps a tactical reserve. Your inch is your opportunity to constantly improve in an elite environment.
- Every team should have a battle cry.
- As leaders, people at a minimum are going to mimic your behavior. SEALS are going to amplify your behavior. Calm is contagious.
- Panic is contagious. Stupid is 100% contagious.
- Over 200 missions, all my guys have come back with me.
- A covenant exists between a nation’s warriors and its civilians.
- All of you are giving us something to fight for. There is no other reason to go into harms way.
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