The Rock in My Shoe
Every Takeoff Deserves a Safe Landing
Unique Leadership Axiom: A winning mission depends upon a thorough pre-flight check.
Wash And Dry Your Feet, Always Have A Clean Pair Of Socks
Unique Leaders Axiom: For you and your people, physical health comes first.
One of the criteria used in designing ammunition is lethality. But sometimes munitions designs which will wound rather than kill are more devastating to the enemy. Why? Because caring for the wounded is a logistic burden. Not only is a soldier who is wounded less capable of fighting, but he also is a burden on others who must care for him rather than fight. Wounded soldiers burden their team.
Every Time You Rest, Clean Your Weapon.
Unique Leadership Axiom: Never miss a chance to sharpen your tools
Bart Simpson says, “So what? Who cares? What’s in it for me?”
Drop Your C***s and Grab Your Socks
Unique Leadership Axiom: In boot camp, where you learn to survive, the most primitive human needs are set aside every day for the accomplishment of the team mission.
SUICIDE BY EGO
The Rock in My Shoe
Leadership is a heavy burden. The leader finds his strength in his convictions. If when he reaches down for the strength of conviction he finds instead, his ego, then it is time to pull his head out of his ass!
The Daily Dozen
Unique Leadership Axiom: The Daily Dozen adds life to your years and years to your life.
Polished Shoes Save Lives
Unique Leadership Axiom: When your life is on the line your habits will save you.
In boot camp old habits die and new habits are born. It’s common for civilians to believe that boot camp is all about squashing initiative. In fact boot camp is about building initiative. Initiative is built on a foundation of self-knowledge. Nature provides us with certain attributes and nurturing makes those attributes useful. Don’t choke on that! Believe it or not boot camp is about nurturing: nurturing self-knowledge, nurturing skill, nurturing an appreciation of standards.
Presidential Training Wheels
The Rock In My ShoeWe all have training wheels provided us by the evolution of the species. One-trial-learning, which I refer to as training wheels, helps us survive in new situations. Unfortunately, it is also the root cause of prejudice. Read More…
Organized and Creative
The Rock In My ShoeMichelle my wife is organized and neat. I claim that my difference from that is creativity. Almost every expert on management or business operation says you need to operate from a clean desk. Never did that, never been there, at least outside the military world. Read More…
