This is Jockel Podcast number 253 with Dave Burke and me, Jockel Willink. Good evening, Dave.

Good evening. So last couple of podcasts, 251 with Laf Babin, 252, also with Dave Burke.

We are continuing to make our way through this book right here, Guidelines for the Leader and Commander by General Bruce Clark.

Dave and I made it up to page 13. Dave and I, last time we made it up to page 28, it's 117 page book.

It's just almost impossible not to find lessons and save yourself. I don't need to worry about that section right there.

So to take these experiences from this leader and commander and try and apply them.

And this book was the guidebook for my biggest mentor, Colonel David Hackworth, author of About Face.

And there's so many threats. I just noticed that threat today. Or on the last podcast, the threat between General Clark and making the men stand to and then being okay with it once they almost got overrun and Hackworth, I just, they're the threats just connected on that last podcast.

So the threads keep getting connected. If you want to see the threads of the way, Hackworth learned to lead, which in turn taught me how to lead, they all tie right back to General Clark.

So that's what we're doing. We're tracking these lessons to their root cause to their root to the source and learning as we do it.

So part three of guidelines for the leader and commander by General Bruce Clark first section we get into today.

We're on chapter five, the conduct of inspections. And I'll tell you this as I was as I was parsing this book, the first time I prepped for it, I thought,

I thought, life and I were going to get through half of it. And I thought, life and I will do back to back podcasts will do half in one podcast. So we cover 60 or so pages and then we do half we just do come to back to back.

We made it through 13 pages. So now as I'm reading it, I'm looking for like the breaking points or where I can go. Okay, this is a good section.

This section today, the end of this section we're going to cover today is it's it's it's freaking epic. I don't know if that word around very often.

So we'll get there, but this this chapter five starts off with the conduct of inspections. And the first question is why inspect and then it says there is a saying in organization does well only those things, the boss checks.

This true is an originated in so far as I am concerned from a speech that I heard made by a vice president of one of our largest corporations. This is not a new thought to anyone who has military experience because I have often heard it expressed as anything that has not been inspected has been neglected.

I changed the way I said that word to neglect it, but it made it sound a lot better. So anything that has not been inspected has been neglected.

If these sayings are true and I think they are it follows that anyone who has important position must be able to check in on or inspect the operations which is responsible.

So I think I sent a picture of this to lay because this is a line that I hear lay say a lot it's a line that he heard me say a lot and we always attribute it to hack worth.

We always attribute it to hack worth. And guess what? You didn't come from aqua.

How to inspect or talk about how to inspect civilians often think of a non-commissioned officer and officer as a demon inspector.

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