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I want to take a few minutes of your time and just talk about leadership and today I want to just kind of define you know what is leadership and maybe what's more important is what isn't leadership so in the world we live in today a lot of folks will say well I want to be a leader because I want to control the way people are working and be able to tell them what to do and that's that's what being a leader means to me I get to to Lord over those people and put my thumb up

and keep them headed in the direction that I think is important what I would say is that's probably diametrically opposed to what I believe so when I think about a leader I think of somebody that's going to inspire others to follow them so what does that imply if you're going to be inspired to follow me that means I should probably be doing the job already and then you're going to jump in there and do the job right along with me or vice versa

I noticed that in the old history books I read, we've got our leaders leading from the front,

literally going into battle and leading their men across the battlefield. Now, all leadership is not

battlefield leadership or military leadership, but that says a lot about our leaders if they are

on the battlefield in front of us taking us against a prepared enemy or even not a prepared enemy.

We've seen current leadership in the military, higher leaders are probably not going to be on the

battlefield leading you into that mission. Does that mean they have to be there? No, it doesn't

mean that. What it means is that you may have stepped out of a leadership role more into a manager's

role. Now, in my book, Leadership in the Shadows, I talk about leaders versus managers, and I would

say this, you don't have to be in the military, you don't have to be law enforcement, you don't have

to be a CEO of a company, to be a leader, you can be a manager and lead in that position. Once again,

if you are that manager, you can set the example for those around you for them to follow, and that's

actually you trying to be a leader in the position that you're in. What's more important, a leader

or a manager? Well, I guess that depends on what the task is. A manager is somebody that's going to

get you everything that you need to be successful as a leader, and that manager can also then step in

and be in that leadership position. If you're on the battlefield and I keep referring to that because

I'm a military guy, that's just how I think. Managing assets on the battlefield, whose job is that?

Well, ultimately it's the commander's job to make sure that we have the assets that we need,

and that those assets are all working together to help us have mission success. So assets, they're

part of the team, whether it's a bird flying over and giving us ISR feed so that we can see what's

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