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The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

DAVE MCCORMICK | Superpower in Peril

The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

iHeartPodcasts

Politics, News, News Commentary, Daily News, Society & Culture

4.511.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Sean and Dave discuss Dave’s new book “Superpower in Peril: a battle plan to renew America”. They talk about how to reclaim America and the bold policies required to save our country, as well as leadership in combat and in business. Dave...

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Leadership is an extraordinary task. If you ask 10 people what leadership means, you'll probably get 10 different answers.

0:15.1

And to lead people in any situation takes a lot of things, courage, humility, tenacity,

0:20.6

conviction, wisdom, the list goes on and on.

0:25.0

Sometimes leadership means charging a hill through a volley of enemy fire and

0:30.2

rallying your troops to follow. It means allowing your troops to follow.

0:32.6

It means allowing your troops to eat first

0:35.3

and you eat last.

0:37.8

It means making hard decisions, even unpopular decisions.

0:42.2

If you're not pissing someone off every now and again as a leader

0:46.2

you're just not doing your job. More often than not, the greatest leader is the one

0:52.3

who's failed the most who's made mistakes

0:56.0

learned from them and got back on their feet. When asked for advice, great

1:02.4

leaders tell you of their failures in the lessons they learned

1:06.1

more often than their triumphs.

1:09.5

And through it all, it's a fighting mentality that pushes the greatest leaders through struggle and into greatness.

1:16.7

My guest today is that type of leader.

1:20.9

Dave McCormick is one of the most impressive people I of he's an army officer Dave is also a business leader who's grown companies and worked at one of the largest hedge funds in the entire world before being fired only to return and become CEO.

1:44.0

He served in the Trump White House.

1:46.0

He narrowly lost the nomination for Pennsylvania Senate seat in 2022,

1:51.0

and even then he stayed in the fight.

1:55.0

Dave is a leader and a fighter by nature.

1:59.0

His new book, Super Power in Paril, A Battle plan to renew America, is a bold and thoughtful vision for how

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