Jocko Willink
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And I explained it to my boss and my boss says, no.
Okay, do I have an argument?
No?
Okay.
Well, then how can I mitigate this?
Well, I can mitigate it by not stacking my platoon up in front of the door or outside the building and doing a call-out.
So those kind of things, I think, get lost when it comes to communicating up and down the chain of command.
Yep.
I want to learn from you.
The way you do it is a little bit of trust at a time.
So if you started working for me, I wouldn't be like, hey, Sean, we got this op tonight.
Why don't you take lead on that?
I'm going to sit in the talk.
I've never worked with you before, and I'm just going to let you go take lead on a mission.
No, it's like, hey, Sean, we got this op tonight.
Can you run external security for me?
Or can you clear this back, you know, outhouse with your fire team?
And you're like, cool, got it, boss.
And you do it, you do it well.
And then the next time, hey, you're in charge of external security.