The Rooftop Podcast
154 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsThe Rooftop Podcast helps servant leaders make stronger human connections so they can get big stuff done. We release short "Fireside Chat" episodes on Tuesday and full episodes on Friday.
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Battle Buddies: Getting Out of Your Own Way
March 12, 2019 14:48 - 6 minutes - 14.7 MBThe subject of this particular video clip on the Rooftop Rally Point series is, “Battle Buddies: Getting Out of Your Own Way”. I thought telling the story of my Ranger Buddy, Cliff would be very appropriate because Cliff taught me the importance of Battle Buddies. Cliff became my dear friend and we lost Cliff in the Pentagon on 9/11, 2001. Yeah, he was my Ranger buddy, but in other units that are not Rangers, they call that one person that looks out for you and you look out for them your, ...
PCI's: The Science of Getting Ready
February 26, 2019 14:30 - 7 minutes - 16.1 MBI worked with a certain a team Sergeant that made sure we always accomplished our missions, we always got stuff done at a very high level and it was because we did the little things right, and that's the theme for this Rooftop Rally Point. PCI’s, “The Science of Getting Ready”. PCI stands for Pre-Combat Inspections, and it’s a critical element in leading a team in the art of high performance. Now how does that fit into the civilian world? Join me by the campfire as we discuss how “PCI’s: The...
Human Terrain: Reading People in the Room
February 19, 2019 21:41 - 9 minutes - 22.7 MBWhat I would like to get across in this Vlog, is the importance of “Human Terrain” in our work. In this day and age where we are so distracted, so disengaged, so distrustful of each other, we've become completely transactional at the corporate level, the entrepreneurial level, with our clients, and we just focus on the transaction, and we don't look at the human terrain. Right? We don't look at who the decision-makers are. We don't look who are the relevant gate-keepers. Join me by the...
Rooftop Rally Point: Leaders Recon - How to Win Before You Show Up
February 12, 2019 15:52 - 7 minutes - 17 MBI want to talk about a lesson that I learned in special ops, one that is really pervasive in a lot of other military organizations. This lesson is one that I think can really help you have a competitive edge or as our subtitle says, that can help you win before you even show up when you have to do that right? This concept is called, “The Leaders Recon: How to Win Before You Show Up”. Join me by the campfire and let’s discuss how the “Leaders Recon” can help you win before you even show u...
Rooftop Rally Point - SLLS: Being Present in the Chaos
February 05, 2019 16:10 - 7 minutes - 18 MBThe title of this episode is SLLS: Being Present in the Chaos. The acronym stands for: Stop, Look, Listen and Smell, because all around us, chaos is going on. When you walk into a restaurant, just notice how people are, they're lost in their own conversations. They're not paying attention to what's going on around them. Most of them have their heads buried in their phones. Everywhere you go, you will see this in a board meeting, or even if you go to a presentation or a conference, notice...
Decisive Point
February 05, 2019 16:08 - 11 minutes - 26.7 MBWe are going to talk about how to use a “Decisive Point” to arrive at a solution for a complex problem. Now, in the last Vlog you heard me talk about “Unity of Effort”. It’s taking all of the different participants in your organization, and unifying their effort under one common vision, that you the leader create, right? How do we arrive at a true “Unity of Effort”, where everyone is content playing their position? How do we get everybody playing their position happily, engaged, and unders...
Battlefield to Boardroom: Unity of Effort
January 22, 2019 19:33 - 10 minutes - 23.6 MBOne of the lessons that I talk about a lot in corporate America and in organizations from nonprofits to small businesses is this notion of what we call “Unity of effort”, in the military world. “Unity of Effort”, this timeless principle of military planning and operations and strategy that's been around, frankly, since Sun Tzu and Clausewitz is so appropriate for your organization. Join me by the campfire and let’s talk about how, “Unity of Effort” is a powerful tool that will serve your te...
Battlefield to Boardroom: METL "Mission Essential Task List"
January 15, 2019 16:35 - 7 minutes - 18.1 MBWhat is it that rings the bell for Your Organization? What are the things that if you don't do money doesn't come in, you don't achieve your mission? These thoughts took me back to a term that we use in the military. We call it METL. Mission Essential Task List. And every organization in the military has one. The Mission Essential Task List is a few of the absolutely critical tasks that you must do to be successful at your mission, your charter, what you were designed to do. Join me ...
Battlefield to Boardroom: Leadership Philosophy
January 08, 2019 14:20 - 8 minutes - 18.8 MBAs I moved on through my career, I saw leaders good and bad who would put out their leadership philosophy. It was something that I started to do myself as a team leader, as a company commander, and I saw the value in it because what it does, is it shares with people who you are, why you're there, and where you're going, where's the organization going. When you do that, when people can get a sense of you and that kind of clarity, then they have a sense of themselves and they know what they...
Pictures in Their Head
December 25, 2018 18:30 - 4 minutes - 11 MBStuart Diamond tells us to, “See the pictures in their head”. If you can do this, let me tell you something, you have a serious leadership advantage in life and business because when you see the pictures in their heads, now you know where to start and you have a sense of the roadmap you need to follow to meet them where they are, not where you want them to be, and to collaborate to meet each other's goals. Join me by the campfire and let’s take a look at how we can see the, "Pictures in Th...
Understanding the Emotional Atmosphere in the Room
December 18, 2018 18:00 - 4 minutes - 11.3 MBAssess and understand the emotional atmosphere in the room. It’s critical in your boardroom, with your kids, with your associates, your prospects, your clients. There is an emotional climate always around us, because humans are the most meaning seeking, emotional creatures on planet Earth, right? So, there's always emotions going on with the people across from you and inside yourself. Right? So, we have to assess all the time. Join me by the campfire and let’s talk about what it takes t...
Power of Leveraging a Committed Network
December 11, 2018 14:41 - 3 minutes - 9.03 MBOne of the first steps that I want to go into for meeting people where they are, one of the first tools is to leverage the network. Leverage a powerful network. If you can do this, you can move people to take action. You can create a movement, right? Networks are at our disposal. You'd be amazed in this book, Game Changers, how many people we were able to rally around village stability, nonprofit groups that specialized in dispute resolution, Navy Seals, State Department diplomats, agricu...
Meet Them Where They Are
December 06, 2018 01:09 - 6 minutes - 14.6 MBHow do you go from 75 people who are committed to something, to 15,000 in less than 18 months? Would those numbers make a difference in your business? Would those numbers make a difference in your association or your organization? Would those numbers make a difference if you went from 75 people following you, and I mean avidly, to 15,000 people willing to run through walls for you? Willing to take a bullet. Willing to endure risk and hardship. Would that make a difference in your life, your b...
High Stakes Listening
September 25, 2018 01:08 - 12 minutes - 28 MBIsn't it interesting that although we know listening is such a powerful thing, we know that biologically it validates us at an identity level and it endears and creates relevance and reciprocity. Yet so few of us do it. It's hard, right? Right. It's not easy. It's a skill, and when you think about the listeners in your life, think about the great, great listeners in your life, for me my grandfather and my father, right? They come to mind. They work at it. They practice it. It's not just a...
Lean In
September 18, 2018 23:03 - 11 minutes - 26.2 MBThere are a lot of studies that show your body language, your physicality in an interpersonal engagement, is up to 60% of the human connection. Another 30% is voice tonality and maybe 10% is the actual spoken word. But where do we spend most of our time? We send it in the spoken word, from the neck up. The physicality, the presence, the intention, the availability...we leave it out. And so we are virtually and literally leaving value on the table, value in the form of social capital, human c...
HWBL Homework Before Leg Work
September 10, 2018 14:12 - 11 minutes - 26.2 MBHomework Before Leg Work. Our monthly theme this month is ‘Owning the Room’. Achieving a level of relevance so that people follow you, buy from you, invest in you, believe in you. How do you do that? You achieve relevance, you become the most relevant person in the room. You're relevant to the people you serve, and the problems that they face, and the opportunities they want to pursue. You're relevant to their needs, and when you are, it elicits a level of what's called reciprocity, where p...
Own The Room
September 04, 2018 22:33 - 11 minutes - 25.6 MBToday we will discuss the desire to “Own the Room”. The desire to make powerful connections, so that the people sitting across from you, feel inspired and compelled to follow your lead, to proceed with that transaction. To engage in what you want them to engage in. This is how you lead when people don't want to follow. This is the essence of Rooftop Leadership. I call it, “owning the room”. Now there are all kinds of versions of that, but let's think about it in your life, wherever you're s...
Closing the Gaps with Story
August 28, 2018 15:40 - 5 minutes - 11.8 MBThis month we're talking about the power of narrative and the theme this week is closing the gap with storytelling. When you think about your skill as a storyteller, whether you're a business leader, a veteran, a nonprofit leader, or like Byron, a Canadian ranger who has to mentor young junior rangers, who has to work with elders, who has to train Canadian regular army forces all the time. Regardless of what you do for a living, your ability to be a storyteller is one of the greatest conn...
The Art of Practice
August 21, 2018 20:20 - 11 minutes - 26.6 MBWhether it’s Army Rangers, Navy Seals or Green Berets, the reality is the same, they train. They have a deeper and better relationship with practice than anyone around them. They are able to get into a state of flow that is similar to what extreme athletes do when the stakes are life and death. That's ultimate performance. If high performance is what professional athletes do, Ultimate performance is when you get into a state of flow, in that zone, where you just get it done, but the stakes a...
Gifting Your Story
August 21, 2018 20:19 - 10 minutes - 25.1 MBStories are purposeful. They are designed to serve other people. They are gifts and when you use them as gifts, a certain thing called reciprocity occurs where the audience or the listener of the story is connected or is reminded of what's important or is given a lesson that they can learn for their life that they don't have to get scuffed up for. Let me tell you something, this is a quarter of a million years old. This is primal human connection and leadership, and so when I tell you sto...
Birthing Your Story
August 07, 2018 16:20 - 11 minutes - 26.9 MBOur theme this week, as we go into our second month of narrative competence, is “Birthing your Story”. It is a hard process. It is a challenging task and it comes from within us, and that's why you'll often hear authors and creatives call it “birthing a story” because it's difficult. It's painful. It doesn't feel good often times when we're doing this. It's hard work. It's deep work. Birthing a story is not easy. It requires generosity. It requires you to tap in emotionally to the miles tha...
The Hero's Journey
July 31, 2018 14:50 - 9 minutes - 22 MBThe Hero's Journey is a timeless story, it is one of the oldest forms of story in the world, it is a structure that can really serve you well when you are leading with story. The Hero's Journey framework, was really codified by a guy named Joseph Campbell and his book The Hero with a Thousand Faces. What Campbell essentially said is, every hero, or every protagonist, or main character, if you will, from Alexander the Great to Rocky Balboa to JFK, all follow the structure of The Hero's Journ...
Essential Elements of Story
July 24, 2018 15:30 - 10 minutes - 22.9 MBSo, what is it about story that makes it so powerful? In this month of July, we're focusing on Narrative Competence, Part One. And before I get you on your feet, and start having you develop your story, I want to talk about, "What is it that must be in a story?" Let’s talk about five critical components you would want to include in a story. They're not the only five, but they are five, “Essential Elements of Story”. So, whether you're telling a joke to your friends, that you really want to ...
Busting The Myths of Story
July 17, 2018 13:17 - 11 minutes - 25.2 MBI learned storytelling in one of the hardest environments in the world which is tribal society, at-risk, and under-governed, and really on the edges of tribal warfare. That's where I learned storytelling as a Green Beret, to go in and make human connections across vast trust gaps that if we got them wrong, could mean life, death, mission failure at a strategic level. The understanding of high stakes storytelling, of purposeful storytelling, of Rooftop storytelling, stories that would give ...
How Story Works
July 10, 2018 15:03 - 11 minutes - 25.5 MBKendall Haven calls us “Homo-Narratus”. Storytelling has become an evolutionary tool in our survival and why we sit at the top of the food chain. This is why story is so powerful. It's 100,000 years of hard wiring in every human's body. Now, what Kendall says, is that humans have this thing called a make sense mandate. We must make sense of things in order to do them. In order to take a risk, to buy a product, to try a new farming technique. We must make sense of it first. If a story does ...
The Power Of Story
July 02, 2018 16:04 - 10 minutes - 23.5 MBNarrative competence is one of the best ways to make a human connection. Inside narrative competence, lies the integration of storytelling, high-stakes listening, and then nonverbal skills for deep human connections to help you achieve your goals. If you want to move people to take action, if you want to inspire people to follow you, storytelling, the command of story and narrative in your daily dialogue with other people, is essential. Now whether you're doing that on Twitter, Instagram, F...
July 4th Special Podcast
July 02, 2018 16:01 - 50 minutes - 40.3 MB"Freedom isn’t free.” We hear this all the time don’t we. It’s become cliche and over-used. But as we party down this July 4th and continue down the path of a divided America…what do Rooftop Leaders really need to know about this elusive thing and what can we do about it? I'll see you on the Rooftop... Scott Scott Mann breaks it down in this special holiday Rooftop Podcast Episode. There is stuff in here that will not only make you a better leader in your community, it’s stuff that can se...
Narrative Competence
June 30, 2018 16:58 - 9 minutes - 22.6 MBNarrative competence. Whether you are a senior leader in a Fortune 100 company, whether you are a speaker, whether you are a small business owner, a nonprofit owner, a warrior, or a transitioning warrior, pretty much anything where you have to deal with people and achieve big things in a high stakes environment, narrative competence is absolutely essential. We've got a major disconnect between top and bottom, between upper echelons of leadership and the folks in the trenches who are doing ...
Squirrel
June 26, 2018 15:39 - 9 minutes - 22.6 MBAnytime there's somebody that's losing me, that can't stay focused for more than three seconds, I say, "Squirrel!" That's kind of the thing that we use these days to illustrate somebody who can't stay focused, and I believe that is permeating our culture. Humans are severely distracted, and again, if you can't make a human connection as a leader today, then you're pretty irrelevant. You are in an overcrowded marketplace, everybody's just yelling at everybody. Everybody's trying to over ind...
No Rocket Fuel - No Moon Landing
June 19, 2018 14:00 - 9 minutes - 21 MBAs you think about leadership today in your organization, in your household, in your community, do you see lots of motivation? Do you see lots of engagement? Do you see a lot of collective energy, or do you see evidence of apathy, disengagement, disconnection? Our theme this month is the challenge of human connection, understanding your arena and that no one wins alone, and if you want to accomplish things bigger than yourself, if you want to leave deep tracks in this world, you've got to be...
Life Without Trust
June 12, 2018 16:13 - 8 minutes - 20.1 MBCommunity trust, the ability to trust your neighbor, is going down. This is not a doom and gloom thing. I mean, we've actually been here before. Trust can be restored. I saw trust restored in some of the most trust-depleted villages on the planet in southern and eastern Afghanistan by brave Special Ops leaders and others who went in there to help people believe in themselves at a community level. Trust is social capital and that capital can be restored. But to do that, you've got to be se...
Well Dressed Neanderthals
June 06, 2018 17:24 - 4 minutes - 11.2 MBSo when’s the last time you thought about revenge? In modern society, in daily life, things like thoughts of ‘revenge’ show up that have been around for a hundred thousand years. Things like when you think that your resources might be in scarcity, you kind of change. You get kind of squirrely. When you think your job might be in jeopardy, you get kind of squirrely. If you see that one company acquires another company, you have these ‘in groups and out groups’ that compete for honor and stat...
Personal Ethos
May 24, 2018 14:51 - 7 minutes - 17.5 MBTwo core questions that every human asks themselves at night when everyone else is asleep, who am I? And why am I here? These are questions that we are seeking answers to our entire life. And I don't know that we ever truly find the answer but we can get more clear each time we try. Why would you do that? Why would you go through all of this? Because frankly we're busy, it's hard, it's not necessarily a pleasant thing. So...why? Well, here's why. People are drawn to clarity. People buy cla...
Resistance Countermoves
May 15, 2018 18:10 - 6 minutes - 14.7 MBThis month our theme is, Know Thyself, so now we’re going to start getting clear on what are the countermoves that you can use to overcome resistance. This is what professionals do. Amateurs don’t do this. Amateurs just succumb to resistance over and over again. Pros recognize that they have to fight the battle anew every day, that they’re going to have to face resistance every day, and that they need countermoves that they can go to, that will help them do their work. Join me by the campf...
Personal Superpowers
May 08, 2018 15:32 - 10 minutes - 23.5 MBHow do I define a 'Personal Superpower'? It's those traits and characteristics that you can bring to bear externally that add value to the lives of others. How about that? Did you write that down? Those traits and characteristics that you can apply externally to others that add value to the life of others. That's what I classify as a personal superpower. Join me by the campfire and let’s talk about how you can identify and bring to life your “Personal Superpower”. I'll see you on the Roo...
Tracks and Torches
May 02, 2018 18:38 - 7 minutes - 16.2 MBMy dad, Rex Mann has always said, "Leave your tracks in this world." He described tracks as those indelible impressions that we leave in the Earth that serve, not those around us necessarily, as much as they serve those who follow you. “Torches” is simply the word I use to describe our passions for operationalizing those deep tracks. Tracks are forever. They're your inner compass. They are the essence of your identity. Your torches, they come and go. They're powerful. They're where you app...
Indifference
April 24, 2018 17:18 - 4 minutes - 10.2 MB"Whatever, man." How many times have you heard that word, "whatever?" I hear it all the time in just day to day life when I'm interacting with people on the road or on calls. I hear this word, "whatever." I hate the word because it embodies, really, the theme for this week which is indifference. Steven Pressfield says that the opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. Join me this week as we continue discussing our theme of "Know Thy Enemy' and we confront a foe we face almost eve...
Resistance
April 17, 2018 20:50 - 12 minutes - 28.8 MBNow, we've talked about other enemies, we've talked about the erosion of trust, we've talked about distraction through the Guppy Effect. Enemies in this sense, are the enemies that stand between you and the tracks you want to leave in this world and the goals as a Rooftop Leader that you want to fulfill on that will help people and inspire people to take action to do bigger things because they want to, not because they have to. That enemy. I believe resistance is the greatest enemy you wi...
The Guppy Effect Part 2
April 12, 2018 20:34 - 12 minutes - 9.42 MBDistraction is a huge problem for leaders like us isn’t it. The average human only pays attention for a few seconds. How do you deal with that when everyone has their head in their devices? In this episode, Scott will give you five unmatched best practices to overcome the "Guppy Effect.” Join us…and share this podcast with your Tribe! See you on the Rooftop!
The Guppy Effect
April 11, 2018 01:03 - 10 minutes - 24.4 MBMicrosoft has done a study that has shown that the goldfish has an average attention span of nine seconds, and the average human today has an attention span of eight seconds. Our attention span is one second less than a friggin’ goldfish, but check this out. The guppy has an attention span of 15 seconds. What I’m telling you as you’re watching this right now, the guppy has almost two times the attention span of a human being living in the United States and other countries around the world. T...
The Churn
April 03, 2018 18:08 - 10 minutes - 24.8 MBKnow thy enemy. I'm talking about one enemy in particular today, an enemy I call 'the churn'. So, what's happened to trust today? Look at your own world, your own life. Turn on the news for 15 seconds. What do you see? You see churn. Go to work and look at how people treat each other. Look at the little groups that form. That’s churn. Look at any kind of political conversation today, whether it's gun control, whether it's race, whether it's taxes. It's all churn. In this week's video blog...
Raw Mastermind
March 23, 2018 16:18 - 27 minutes - 63.8 MB"No One Wins Alone." That’s our theme this month in Rooftop Leadership and the topic of this podcast. I believe this in my very core. That’s why I hang out with four guys who call ourselves “Raw Mastermind.” This little group is a team that has helped me grow my business and enrich my life. You can build the same kind of team right now and play a bigger game. Give this podcast a listen and share with your tribe." Check out: www.DavidMartinco.com. www.elevation180.com LTC (Ret.) Scott Mann ...
Crabs In A Bucket
March 20, 2018 15:43 - 8 minutes - 19.9 MBWell all fear it. We all fear rejection from our peers, from our family members, from the people closest to us. There's a saying, 'crabs in a bucket', whenever one crab starts to crawl out of a bucket, the other crabs will reach up and pull that crab back down into the bucket. "Get your ass back down here," right? That's what happens just as he's right on the edge of making it out. Why is that? Join me around the fire pit for this week's video blog on dealing with the 'crabs' aiming to un...
How to Build Your A-Team Team Podcast
March 16, 2018 00:27 - 10 minutes - 23.7 MBSo what I want to talk about this week is this notion of building a team, what really goes into it. I’d like you thinking about your team. I’d like you thinking about what it means to you and even evaluating where you are in your journey right now and if you’ve got the right people on the bus to build this team. When I was in Special Forces, I will tell you, we put an inordinate amount of time into how we selected, how we assessed and how we assembled together our teams. We call it an A t...
The Power of Team Podcast
March 16, 2018 00:19 - 9 minutes - 22.4 MBNo one wins alone. I’d like you to remember that metaphor for your life. No matter how talented you are, no matter how dedicated you are, how great your plan is, how wonderful your skills are, no one wins alone. Eventually someone’s going to roll a grenade in the room with you and if you don’t have a strong team, you’re going to go down. You may go down with self-sabotage or you may go down just simply because people don’t follow you. But, having a team that has your back and collectively ...
Quality Over Quantity Podcast
March 16, 2018 00:16 - 9 minutes - 21.9 MBWe’re going to talk about a theme that is very near and dear to my heart, and it is quality over quantity. You probably heard your mom or grandmother or your dad talk about this in some degree as you were growing up, which is quality trumps quantity. Quality trumps quantity every single time, and I really do believe that’s true and it’s certainly true when we’re doing our deep work. That time that we spend in the dark, that time that we spend alone, that time that we spend in the grind, ...
High Performance
March 16, 2018 00:13 - 9 minutes - 22.1 MBAs Rooftop Leaders, we define ‘High Performance’ a little differently than most. If you want to be a high performer, you need to be willing to do the deep work you were put on this earth to do. High Performers don’t make resolutions, they leave tracks. Now, what does that mean to you? If you do this kind of work as a Rooftop Leader, I’m not promising you fame, I’m not promising you wealth or status that may or may not come as the result of this kind of work. What I am promising you is that...
Deliberate Practice Podcast
March 15, 2018 23:56 - 8 minutes - 19.6 MB‘Deliberate Practice’ is when you practice and practice and practice until you can’t get it wrong. Now that level of commitment and that level of dedication is what I’m talking about for you in the deep work that’s necessary to fulfill on your goals. And I promise you, almost no one does this and if you’ll do it, you will find yourself at a place in your life doing what you were meant to do in this world and you’ll find yourself surrounded by people you respect. Check out this week's podca...
Relationship To Practice Podcast
March 15, 2018 23:53 - 9 minutes - 22.1 MBWhat we’ve learned through a lot of science in the last few years is that, how you practice really does determine how you perform. In this month, we are discussing deep work for leaving deep tracks. The theme in this second week is ‘Relationship to Practice’. Are you looking at those deep tracks every day? Have you built your vision board? Or, have you put some kind of narrative up that reminds you of what you’re here to do? And are you giving yourself that rocket fuel injection every day? ...
Turning Your Why Into Rocket Fuel
March 15, 2018 23:46 - 12 minutes - 28.2 MBIf you’re trying to grow your business, if you’re trying to bring more stability to your work place, whatever your bigger than you task is, how do you do that? What’s the process for it? This stuff is not easy. There is no quick fix. There’s no formula that’s going to get you there overnight. It’s an affinity for the grind. It’s doing the deep work necessary to get there. At the end of the day, you could have the best plan in the world, you could have a great outline of what you’re going t...