459: No Matter What Happens, Keep Moving Forward. w SOG Warrior, "Dynamite" Dick Thompson

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🗓️ 9 October 2024

⏱️ 236 minutes

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Henry L. (Dick) Thompson, Ph.D., is an internationally recognized consultant, educator, speaker and author. Over the past 30 years, he has gained valuable experience developing and leading teams—from the battlefield to the boardroom. He uses his vast experiences and knowledge to help leaders and organizations improve performance.

Career

Dr. Thompson is the founder, president and CEO of High Performing Systems, Inc., an international management consulting and training firm he founded in 1984 to help leaders, teams and organizations achieve high performance. The philosophy of HPS is based on a systems approach to performance improvement. Clients are Fortune 500 companies, government agencies and a diverse group of public, private and international firms. These include AT&T, Georgia-Pacific Corporation, Shell Oil Company, Johnson & Johnson, Apple, Owens-Corning, Delta Airlines, Wipro Technologies, Mohawk Industries and Titan America, to name a few.

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0:00.0	This is Jocko Podcast Number 459 with Eco Charles and me Jocko Willing.
0:04.4	Good evening, Eco. Good evening.
0:07.5	Every time I led my team on a mission, it was a kill or be killed event.
0:17.7	Each time, hundreds. It was a kill or be killed event each time hundreds sometimes thousands of people would die
0:23.6	It was not about rules of engagement was this an enemy? Does this person have a weapon?
0:25.4	Is this person about to kill me?
0:27.5	Or the many other questions and rules today's special operators
0:31.4	might have to deal with. SOG rules of engagement were
0:36.0	very simple. Everyone was the enemy. The enemy had to be terminated or you would be.
0:44.0	And if the enemy caught you, the United States government would deny any involvement with you or what you were doing.
0:51.0	You had no protection under the Geneva Convention.
0:55.9	You were a spy.
0:57.8	You were on your own.
1:00.5	The death rate for SOG operators was high.
1:04.0	After five months in SOG, I had lost 16 friends,
1:09.0	teammates.
1:12.0	There were many other SOG operators. teammates.
1:17.0	There were many other SOG operators killed in action and mission in action that I did not know personally.
1:20.0	Being a SOG operator was not conducive to long-term survival.
1:25.0	At this point in SAG, I had been hit with shrapnel on six missions,
1:30.0	splattered with small amounts of napalm twice shot three times with an AK-47 in the
1:36.9	radio on my back hit by a large piece of shrapnel in my URC 10 survival radio on my chest, suffered two concussions, and
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