Navy Seal Jimmy May EXPLAINS How To BUILD Resilience & EXTREME DISCIPLINE | EP. 13
Apr 11, 2023
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Retired Navy SEAL Commander, Jimmy May, discusses leadership, resilience, and transitioning to civilian life. He shares intense combat scenarios, empowering leadership techniques, and the importance of community in high-stress environments. The podcast also explores the transferable skills from the military to entrepreneurship, decision-making under uncertainty, and supporting transitioning veterans through a nonprofit initiative.
Empower individuals based on character and ability for effective leadership dynamics.
Swiftly address problematic team members to maintain a healthy team culture and performance.
Build discipline over motivation by starting small tasks and shifting focus towards productivity.
Deep dives
Empowering the Right People in Leadership
Leadership involves empowering the right people in the organization, focusing on character and ability rather than rank. By empowering individuals and quickly addressing issues by terminating non-fitting team members, leaders can maintain effective team dynamics and performance.
Handling Difficult Decisions in Team Management
Addressing problematic team members swiftly and decisively is crucial for maintaining a healthy team culture. Creating a system for identifying when someone is not a good fit and providing clear expectations can help in making tough decisions for the benefit of the team and overall company.
Developing Resilience Through Purpose and Community
Building resilience involves assigning a task, purpose, and maintaining a sense of community during challenging times. Assigning a meaningful task to individuals facing hardships can provide focus and drive. Connecting them to others in the community helps maintain a sense of belonging and support, contributing to their overall resilience and recovery.
Developing Discipline Over Motivation
The podcast delves into the significance of cultivating discipline over relying solely on motivation. The speaker emphasizes that motivation is fleeting and temporary, while discipline is the key driver for consistency. They highlight the importance of starting small to build discipline like fasting for a day to strengthen mental fortitude. By shifting focus from oneself to productive tasks, individuals can enhance their discipline muscle gradually, making it easier to tackle challenges and stick to commitments in the long run.
Commander's Intent and Effective Leadership
The discussion focuses on the concept of commander's intent and its application in leadership roles. The speaker shares insights on how in military scenarios, the commander's intent guides decision-making by offering a clear mission statement, specified tasks, implied tasks, and desired end state. By empowering team members with the intent rather than just instructions, leaders enable flexible and strategic problem-solving. This approach allows individuals to act decisively within a framework while fostering a culture of accountability and proactive thinking, leading to successful mission outcomes.
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In this podcast, I had the pleasure of having an hour-long conversation with my good friend, Jimmy May.
For those of you who don't know who Jimmy is, he is an active-duty Navy SEAL Commander with 22 years of service. He developed and teaches curriculums on combat leadership to all SEAL Chiefs and OICs and Combat Ethics to the Naval Special Warfare Community and the Navy JAG community. Jimmy is also the CEO of Sushi Assassin, an in-home sushi catering business for private events, and recently started Mayday Executive Services to help companies develop camaraderie and unit cohesion through shared intense experiences. He serves as CEO and a board member of Beyond the Brotherhood, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping Navy SEALS of character transition from the Teams to the civilian sector, and is sought after as a keynote speaker for events across a wide variety of organizations.
He is a true American hero.
In this interview, Jimmy shares his stories as a leader of many, how he built resilience, and how he was able to stay disciplined throughout his military career. Now, he's CEO of Sushi Assassin and Beyond the Brotherhood.
He's an incredible person and I'm very lucky to call him one of my friends. This is one interview you don't want to miss.
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