Zach Pena

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1,635 appearances 8 recordings 1 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 28 Jul

Zach Pena’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Watchtower - Mission Critical and Data Center Perspectives · Surviving Success: Why Mishandling Growth Kills Businesses Despite Massive Demand · 25 Feb 2026 podcast

right okay well let's say they go into battle even back in time not even to say if we had machine guns right but like let's go back in time and say let's say they got into a fight hand-to-hand combat with everybody that had battle axes well guess what the guys battle axes are going to win because they're wearing probably like a sheet of metal on their chest right they have a helmet that looks like they're about to go you know into the depths of hell right um voice-verified

And they're coming swinging. voice-verified

Or just because they're expecting battle axes. voice-verified

Or because they're expecting battle axes, right? voice-verified

So you hit them with the butt of your rifle, it might hurt a little bit, but when they swing their axe and you've got nothing to protect you, it's going to get nasty real fast. voice-verified

I think this was by no means said tongue in cheek, but, you know, something that, you know, the military across the board kind of throws out there when you're when you're coming up and in that culture is, you know, lead, follow or get the heck out of the way. voice-verified

Right. voice-verified

And people can look at that very, I'll call it negative. voice-verified

But I think as a true leader and especially as an executive, right. voice-verified

you kind of have to lay by those rules a little bit, right? voice-verified

You need to look at it and say, okay, my initial out the gate is to lead. voice-verified

It's got to start. voice-verified

Someone's got to carry the battle flag, right? voice-verified

And then once you bring in leaders and you start scaling, right, you bring in either peers or you bring in middle management, you then have to look at it and say, okay, well, I'm going to lead from a different avenue of approach, but I'm really going to follow what my team needs, right? voice-verified

And I think that's kind of an easier step. voice-verified

But then the third and most crucial step, and I think this is where bad leaders meet large scale and you get in an uncomfortable position, is when the leader doesn't know when to get the hell out of the way and let their team run. voice-verified

You built it for a reason. voice-verified

You put these processes, procedures, and all this stuff in place. voice-verified

You trusted other individuals other than yourself to go do the thing. voice-verified

And some leaders won't get out of the command and control mindset. voice-verified

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