Owner's Profit Playbook

Leadership Lessons From the Military


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Marty Strong is a retired Navy SEAL officer and combat veteran. He is a novelist, a practicing CEO and Chief Strategy Officer, and the author of Be Nimble: How the Creative Navy SEAL Mindset Wins on the Battlefield and in Business, and a second book, Be Visionary: Strategic Leadership in the Age of Optimization, set for release in December 2022.

Marty's traveled to over forty countries, been shot at in a few, survived cancer twice, and experienced the loss of his oldest son. He has spent a lifetime meeting challenges head-on, succeeding in three professions, anticipating crisis, and leading through crisis and chaos.

Here's What We Cover

  • The concept of a practicing CEO
  • Combat leadership and how it applies to business leadership
  • Knowing yourself in the moment is the biggest challenge for CEO's
  • There is too much time spent on poor leaders
  • In the military everyone is in charge at some point of something
  • Interview other leaders to learn leadership
  • 2 questions to ask every leader
  • The importance of building benches
  • You are always training your replacement
  • Cost of enabling poor leaders
  • Most companies have strategies written on a wall and never visited again

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