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Rudy Mawer

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
8249 total appearances

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Living The Red Life
27th U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper: Power, Leadership, and Life-or-Death Decisions

I think I do pretty well at it because I'm like good at business and structure and I'm very level-headed.

Living The Red Life
27th U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper: Power, Leadership, and Life-or-Death Decisions

But what I would hate is the game of chess behind it because I'm always like a pretty blunt person.

Living The Red Life
27th U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper: Power, Leadership, and Life-or-Death Decisions

I say British, I say it how it is and I do the right thing and I just move forward.

Living The Red Life
27th U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper: Power, Leadership, and Life-or-Death Decisions

But yeah, behind it, there's a game of chess.

Living The Red Life
27th U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper: Power, Leadership, and Life-or-Death Decisions

Yeah, I imagine that's tough.

Living The Red Life
27th U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper: Power, Leadership, and Life-or-Death Decisions

So talking about, you know, leadership and military, I wanted to ask you one thing.

Living The Red Life
27th U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper: Power, Leadership, and Life-or-Death Decisions

One,

Living The Red Life
27th U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper: Power, Leadership, and Life-or-Death Decisions

One thing that I think really changed my look at leadership, I was very fortunate.

Living The Red Life
27th U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper: Power, Leadership, and Life-or-Death Decisions

About 10 years ago, a friend took me to an extreme ownership seminar.

Living The Red Life
27th U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper: Power, Leadership, and Life-or-Death Decisions

I think it was Jocko's first ever seminar or second, and there was only like 50 people in the room.

Living The Red Life
27th U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper: Power, Leadership, and Life-or-Death Decisions

And I read the book and I've installed that into my business for every ever since.

Living The Red Life
27th U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper: Power, Leadership, and Life-or-Death Decisions

Right.

Living The Red Life
27th U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper: Power, Leadership, and Life-or-Death Decisions

And every business, every department, every person.

Living The Red Life
27th U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper: Power, Leadership, and Life-or-Death Decisions

How, you know, how much of that exists in the military in terms of taking ownership and responsibility?

Living The Red Life
27th U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper: Power, Leadership, and Life-or-Death Decisions

And, you know, I always quote to my team when it's like the tech team hands off to the design team or the legal.

Living The Red Life
27th U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper: Power, Leadership, and Life-or-Death Decisions

Right.

Living The Red Life
27th U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper: Power, Leadership, and Life-or-Death Decisions

It's like, hey, in the military, if you're, you know, moving for a combat zone, you can't just, you know, the guy covering the flank can't just forget.

Living The Red Life
27th U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper: Power, Leadership, and Life-or-Death Decisions

Yeah.

Living The Red Life
27th U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper: Power, Leadership, and Life-or-Death Decisions

Right.

Living The Red Life
27th U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper: Power, Leadership, and Life-or-Death Decisions

So I always use that sort of acronym and analogy is, is that something you see a lot of people?