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27th U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper: Power, Leadership, and Life-or-Death Decisions
Love it.
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27th U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper: Power, Leadership, and Life-or-Death Decisions
And, you know, last few questions I have now, like bridging into business, right?
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27th U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper: Power, Leadership, and Life-or-Death Decisions
Now you do a lot of consulting work with big companies, CEOs, et cetera.
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27th U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper: Power, Leadership, and Life-or-Death Decisions
And we've talked about a lot of it naturally, but what are those big bridges you see, you know, between the successful CEOs and when you come in and help work with companies?
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27th U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper: Power, Leadership, and Life-or-Death Decisions
What do you bring from that military service?
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27th U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper: Power, Leadership, and Life-or-Death Decisions
Yeah, yeah.
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27th U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper: Power, Leadership, and Life-or-Death Decisions
I mean, just myself in the last 10 years, we've pivoted our business three big times, three different directions.
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27th U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper: Power, Leadership, and Life-or-Death Decisions
And, you know, every time you take a step back for a few months or a year in revenue, but every time, luckily, I've done that, the business has doubled or tripled over the next couple of years, you know, and it's, you know, I'm a very, I guess, I just go for it, you know, I just...
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27th U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper: Power, Leadership, and Life-or-Death Decisions
move forward.
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27th U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper: Power, Leadership, and Life-or-Death Decisions
But yeah, I think a lot of the time it's, you're right.
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27th U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper: Power, Leadership, and Life-or-Death Decisions
You have that group that are like, yeah, let's do it.
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27th U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper: Power, Leadership, and Life-or-Death Decisions
And then most are just like watching, right?
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27th U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper: Power, Leadership, and Life-or-Death Decisions
They're watching and they're seeing the way the tide goes, you know, and, and swaying them.
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27th U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper: Power, Leadership, and Life-or-Death Decisions
And, you know, I do think a big thing that sways them beyond obviously leadership, giving speeches is, is results, right?
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27th U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper: Power, Leadership, and Life-or-Death Decisions
Like I always talk results talk.
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27th U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper: Power, Leadership, and Life-or-Death Decisions
Yes.
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27th U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper: Power, Leadership, and Life-or-Death Decisions
So, you know, when people start to see the proofs in the pudding and, and,
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27th U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper: Power, Leadership, and Life-or-Death Decisions
And I think another good thing that I do as a leader, I think good leaders do is I'll always, I'll do whatever I make my staff do, right?
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27th U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper: Power, Leadership, and Life-or-Death Decisions
So I have Airbnb properties and real estate and I'll paint the walls and I'll move the boxes.
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27th U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper: Power, Leadership, and Life-or-Death Decisions
Good.