The Dichotomy of Leadership: Balancing the Challenges of Extreme Ownership to Lead and Win

“You wanted to kill your father in order to be your father yourself. Now you are your father, but a dead father.” -Sigmund Freud

“Your son is gone.  He was weak and foolish like his father and so I destroyed him.” – Kylo Ren

Once again, the Red Taped bros found themselves becalmed in the doldrums of summer.  Despite valiant efforts, the Navy SEALs could not salvage our voyage of redemption and the core beliefs that once served as our ballast violently shifted leaving us adrift.  This week we break up with the Navy SEAL management/self-help genre.  We also find Aristotle’s wisdom hidden in a table-saw, drown our broken hearts in rum and Cuban food, find the delicate balance of The Dilbert Principle and Extreme Ownership, and reminisce about our first sticky-fumbling catastrophe of a pilot episode.  The father-wounds run deep this episode, as we detach from our dominant podcasting daddies and set a new course into uncharted waters. 

Please join us as we navigate a messy break-up and discuss The Dichotomy of Leadership by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin. Did you really think a couple of bureaucratic, soy-boys and a pair of Navy SEALs would last?  Please feel free to express your disgust or support: [email protected]  (email) and @RedTapedPodcast (Twitter).

Book: The Dichotomy of Leadership: Balancing the Challenges of Extreme Ownership to Lead and Win by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin

Drink: Mojitos and Caipirinhas

Links:

Jocko Podcast #138: The Dichotomy of Leadership with Leif Babin: http://jockopodcast.com/2018/08/15/138-the-dichotomy-of-leadership-with-leif-babin-self-control-and-how-to-find-the-balance/

Upcoming Episodes:

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni

State of the Pod- Midyear Review

How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton

Attributes/Clips:

Opening Song:

“Demon Trooper” by GroovySauce:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KurBhSzAko

Jocko Willink from Jocko Podcast #3: http://jockopodcast.com/2015/12/31/jocko-podcast-3-jocko-echo-the-last-hundred-yards-book-jiu-jitsu-bosses-failure/

Quotes:

“Waiting for my next mission” from Apocalypse Now (Film), 1979

“You need me on that wall” from A Few Good Men (Film), 1992

Closing:

“If you want to change the world, start by making your bed.” An excerpt from Admiral William H. McRaven’s  Commencement Address to the University of Texas Austin (2014): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxBQLFLei70