Leadership EPISODES

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Discover the pivotal choices that shape a leader's journey as we take you behind the scenes of critical decision-making with insights from Jocko Willink's "Leadership Strategy and Tactics." Together with Leif Babin, Andrew Paul, and Jamie Cochran, we unravel the complex dance of leadership where ego can either be your fiercest adversary or an unchecked force leading to downfall. Our tales from the trenches of SEAL Team 3 and th...

What is, perhaps, the most vital law in business? Especially business planning?

We will discover this vital law, from Jocko Willink's and Leif Babins companion workbook to their super popular book Extreme Ownership in this MOJO Minute.

This workbooks title is The Official Companion Workbook to Extreme Ownership by Echelon Front.
Key Points from the Episode:
The best leaders build plans that everyone can understand all the way down to the lowest level in the organization

The most simple plans ...

What is an essential leadership question to ask ourselves? We explore that question in this MM#107 with Jocko Willink's excellent book, Leadership Strategy and Tactics: Field Manual
Key Points from the Episode:
Quick review of Leadership week MM's #34-40, be sure to check them out

Leaders are NOT actually superior to those below them in the chain of command

Do we have the right frame of mind for great leadership?

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In todays MOJO Minute, we study the #1 reason why small business don't grow! To help us, we dig in with our MOJO book of the day, The 1-Page Marketing Plan: Get New Customers, Make More Money, and Stand Out From The Crowd by Allan Dib.

Key Points from the Episode:
Why are business systems important

What is the poster child for good business systems

4 valuable benefits for implementing business systems

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In this special final BONUS MOJO leadership minute, we laugh at the scene of Major Richard "Dick" Winters pulling rank on Captain Herbert Sobel from Stephen Ambrose's famous book, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne, from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest (affiliate link)

Key points:
Talk about the great TV mini series Band of Brothers created after the book was released.

Reflect on great leadership requires respect even for those above us in rank for the common good. C...

In this special BONUS MOJO leadership minute, we discuss how corporate culture can affect character and we dig into two stories from Simon Sinek's great book, Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't (affiliate link)

Key points:
How corporate culture can affect your own personal character

We share two stories from the book, Goldman Sachs and their downfall in the 1990s and The Taj Mahal Place Hotel of 2008.

We reflect on the quote, "so goes the culture, so goes the peop...

In this final special, MOJO leadership minute, we capture the balance required of leadership in The Dichotomy of Leadership (affiliate link)

Key points:
Recaps of the past four days of leadership week

We unpack and define the many dichotomies of leadership from the book.

It's one of the best leadership books in the last twenty years to come out.

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In this special, MOJO leadership minute, we read from a quote from 7 Leadership Lessons of D-Day: Lessons from the Longest Day--June 6, 1944. (affiliate link)

Key points:
Recaps of Day’s 1, 2 and 3 of Leadership week

To be a good leader you have to be a good follower

David shares a personal story of how he learned what right looks like and how we, as leaders, have to share the concept of what right looks like with our teams.

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In another special, MOJO leadership minute, we take a look at John Maxwell and his Law of Connection from John’s great book, the 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You (affiliate link)

Key points:
Recaps of Day’s 1 and 2 of Leadership week

President Bush’s examples of the Law of Connection. The good and the bad.

We close with a leadership list of self assessment questions. Where do you rank?

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In this special MOJO minute of Leadership week at the MOJO Academy, we explore character by digging into the quote from Leading an Inspired Life (affiliate link) by Jim Rohn.

Key points:
Recap of Day 1 of Leadership week

The Greek word for character means "to chisel."

Good character is the surest foundation to developing to be the leader we are capable of being.

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In this special MOJO minute, we kick off Leadership week at the MOJO Academy by defining how to grade Leadership best?

We utilize, Extreme Ownership (affiliate link) as the resource to unpack this brilliant definition of Leadership!

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We conduct a thought experiment about how to grade Leadership with General George Patton from WWII and the Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin.

Then, we uncover the best definition of how to grade Leadership?

We challenge ourselves in growing i...