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252: When You Cast Judgement, Start with Yourself. Be Reliable, Show Initiative, and Anticipate Problems. "Guidelines for the Leader and Commander" pt.2.

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Management, History, Business

4.831.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2020

⏱️ 123 minutes

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Summary

0:00:00 - Opening

0:01:48 - "Guidelines For The Leader and Commander", by Gen. Bruce Clarke

1:45:49 - How to stay on THE PATH.

2:01:35 - Closing Gratitude.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Jockel Podcast number 252 with Dave Burke and me, Jockel Willink.

0:08.7

Good evening, Dave.

0:09.7

Good evening.

0:10.7

Equatrals is taking care of some other business on the last podcast.

0:17.6

Number 251 with Lafe Babin.

0:20.6

We started getting into the book, Guidelines for the Leader and Commander by General Bruce

0:26.9

Clark.

0:27.9

We only made it 13 pages into 1,5 hours and it's a 117 page book.

0:33.7

Just to recap a little bit, this is a book that I searched for for over a decade.

0:38.1

I originally heard about this book in my favorite book, which is called About Face by Colonel

0:44.0

David Hackworth.

0:46.4

Finally found a copy a month and a half ago.

0:50.2

And so here we are just a little background.

0:52.5

Once again on General Bruce Clark, World War I, World War II Korea.

0:57.1

I'm listening to 1917 and I have going to West Point, Colonel World War II, then a general

1:01.1

command at the Fourth Armored Division in Patents Third Army, Battle the Bulge, Distinguished

1:07.1

Service Cross, Three Silver Stars, 45 years of service.

1:13.6

And then spend a bunch of time not only leading troops, but also training troops or overseeing

1:18.5

training commands.

1:19.8

So awesome career.

1:22.2

Hackworth talked about him glowingly in the book about face and that's where this started

1:29.4

took me a long time to find this book.

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