#163: Leadership Lessons From Major Dick Winters
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🗓️ 15 December 2015
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Summary
If you've read Band of Brothers or watched the miniseries, you're familiar with the name Dick Winters. He was part of that famous airborne division which was so crucial in so many pieces of WWII. We've written a lot about the Band of Brothers here on AoM, and each one had something unique that set them apart from the others. What set Dick Winters apart was his leadership abilities. Our guest on today's podcast, Colonel Cole Kingseed, was a good friend of Major Winters in his later years, and even helped him write his memoirs. After Winters died, Kingseed wrote his own book called Conversations With Dick Winters, which we talk about on the show.
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| 0:00.0 | We're at McKay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness Podcast. |
| 0:18.3 | So if you read Band of Brothers or at least seen the miniseries, you are probably familiar |
| 0:21.6 | with the name Major Dick Winters. |
| 0:23.7 | He was a member of the Band of Brothers, easy company, part of the airborne division that |
| 0:28.0 | dropped in a Normandy on D-Day, was there at the Battle of the Bulge that captured Hitler's |
| 0:32.6 | Eagles nested into the end of the war. |
| 0:34.6 | All the Band of Brothers, you've written about several of them on the site before, all |
| 0:37.4 | of them had something that set them apart from each other. |
| 0:39.8 | They all had their unique talents. |
| 0:40.9 | With Dick Winters, the thing that probably set him apart from the other men in his company |
| 0:45.6 | was his leadership ability. |
| 0:46.8 | He displayed phenomenal leadership. |
| 0:48.8 | Today on the podcast, we're going to talk to someone who had a close friendship with |
| 0:53.2 | Dick Winters in the latter part of his years, helped Dick write his personal memoirs |
| 0:57.8 | of his wartime experience after the Band of Brothers series was released. |
| 1:02.2 | His name is Colonel Kingseed. |
| 1:04.0 | He is a retired Colonel from the Army. |
| 1:07.4 | And he helped write Dick Winters memoirs. |
| 1:10.5 | But after Dick Winters died a few years ago, Colonel Kingseed wrote a book, put out a book |
| 1:16.3 | called Conversations with Major Dick Winters. |
| 1:19.2 | Just highlighting some of the conversations that he had with Dick about leadership, about |
| 1:22.6 | character, about courage, about family, about friendship, about old age, and just all |
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