This is Jocko Podcast number 528 with Echo Charles and me, Jocko Willink. Good evening,

Echow. Good evening. So there are problems in leadership, as we know. And believe it or not,

the problems repeat themselves over and over again because human beings, as different as we are,

we are the same. We all have the egos, the emotions, the idiosyncrasies, the agendas, the self-interest. It's all there. It's kind of like a snowflake. You can definitely identify a snowflake when you see one, right? Yeah. But every snowflake is different. It's a very similar thing. All snowflakes will melt when it gets warm out, right? There's a whole bunch of commonalities. Well, it's the same thing with human beings and i found a a manual from the u.s army from their human research unit in fort

benning georgia written in 1965 so it's got kind of the culmination of lessons from world war one

world war two korea and then you know 1965 they're just getting into Vietnam and interestingly that the

manual is called basic problems in small unit leadership right basic problems in small unit

leadership some really good insight some interesting takes on leadership and definitely some

lessons for us to learn and confirm.

So that's what we're doing.

Let's go to the book.

Once again,

basic problems in small unit leadership.

Getting into it.

At the most fundamental level,

a leader is a person with influence over other people.

This influence may be the result of

appointment to a formal position of leadership or of acceptance by a group of persons who then

become followers so this is a this is an interesting just bifurcation out of the gate that this

book does in both cases the leader's success is ultimately

determined by the performance of those he leads. So look, if you're a leader, success is based on

how well the team does. This performance depends on the quality and nature of his leadership

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