531 - The Secret to Being an Effective Leader: Retired Navy SEAL Jocko Willink Shares How He Translates Military Leadership to Business Leadership

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🗓️ 21 January 2020

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Jocko Willink is a NAVY Seal turned leadership coach. He says leadership is “the most complex of all human endeavors.” Because leadership is not just one skill. It’s a combination of hundreds: management, decision making, team building, teaching, disciplining, training... the list goes on. So he wrote a field manual. In this episode, we dig deep into what it looks like to translate military leadership skills into successful business skills. I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast. Thanks so much for listening! If you like this episode, please subscribe to “The James Altucher Show” and rate and review wherever you get your podcasts: Apple Podcasts Stitcher iHeart Radio Spotify Follow me on Social Media: YouTube Twitter Facebook Linkedin Instagram Check Out The Altucher Book Club Series: Apple Podcasts YouTube Instagram

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0:00.0	This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.
0:06.4	This is the James Altiger Show.
0:09.4	Today on the James Altiger Show.
0:15.2	Blame is part of the learning process, right?
0:17.6	You look at yourself.
0:18.6	It's not look at myself.
0:19.8	I ruin this.
0:20.9	I'm a loser.
0:22.1	It's I made a bad decision.
0:23.9	How do I fix it?
0:24.9	Yeah.
0:25.9	There's a huge difference between those two.
0:27.8	It's absolutely true.
0:28.8	And the term I use is actually subordinate your ego, right?
0:32.9	Which is which is harsh term.
0:35.6	Like when you say to someone you need to subordinate your ego and even that term is
0:40.2	supposed to make you feel uncomfortable because people don't want to submit.
0:43.4	People don't want to subordinate themselves.
0:45.2	Yeah, I got scared just now and you pointed at me and said subordinate.
0:49.1	And as soon as you take your ego out of the picture, it allows the other person to put
0:53.2	their ego down and now you can actually communicate with another human being in a positive way.
0:57.8	Right.
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