The Leadership Tree Growing yours from Stem to Stand

Keith Pancake

Do you have the Discipline to do what’s right?

Adversity defines us

Leadership

Leader

• Effective or ineffective • No bad teams, only bad leaders • Right to fail, not right to make others fail.

Theodore Roosevelt • “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong

man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.”

Napoleonic Wars

The Nelson Touch

Abraham Lincoln

Originators of the “Org Chart”

The Original Organization Chart

Mr. Efficiency

Walls, Floors, Silos

…I never said anything about not using confusing graphics slides…

NFL- Nelsonian Football League

Team of Teams concept

Operation Eagle Claw- Command of Teams

Operation Neptune Spear- Team of Teams

Were they onto something?

Common Threads

• 4 Laws of Combat • Cover and Move

• Shared Conciseness • Trust and Respect

• Simple • Communication with Leadership

• Prioritize and Execute • Decentralized Command

• Localized Authority • Empowered Authority

Be where your feet are

• The enemy gets a vote • Murphy is an early riser, and stays up later than you

Referenced Reading • Team of Teams- General Stanley McChrystal • My Share of the Task- General Stanley McChrystal • Extreme Ownership- Jocko Willink, Leif Babbin • The Dichotomy of Leadership- Jocko Willink, Leif Babbin • Nelson’s Trafalgar- Roy Adkins • Seize the Fire- Adam Nicholson • The Extraordinary Coach- John Zenger, Kathleen Stinnett • Delta Force- Charlie Beckwith, Donald Knox • The Operator-Robert O’Neill • The Score Takes Care of Itself- Bill Walsh • The Road Less Traveled- M Scott Peck, MD • Saban: The Making of a Coach- Monte Burke

Additional References

• Echelon Front: Lead. Win • https://echelonfront.com/

• CrossLead

• https://crosslead.com/

• The McChrystal Group • https://www.mcchrystalgroup.com/

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