The Navy SEAL Way to an Extraordinary Life with Brent Gleeson | The Good Leadership Podcast #95

Brent Gleeson is a Navy SEAL combat veteran, award-winning entrepreneur, best-selling author, and acclaimed speaker on topics ranging from leadership and building high performance teams to culture, resilience, and organizational transformation.

Upon leaving SEAL Team 5, Brent turned his discipline and battlefield lessons to the world of business and has become an accomplished entrepreneur, best-selling author and acclaimed speaker on topics ranging from leadership and building high performance teams to culture and organizational transformation. You can learn more about his leadership philosophies in his weekly columns on Inc.com and Forbes.com.

He is the bestselling author of Embrace the Suck and TakingPoint: A Navy SEAL’s 10 Fail Safe Principles for Leading Through Change, which was a #1 New Release in the categories of Organizational Change and Business Structural Adjustment.

Brent's Books: https://www.amazon.com/Books-Brent-Gleeson/s?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3ABrent+Gleeson

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Chapters:

(00:00) Introduction

(01:02) Brent’s background

(05:01) Similarities between the military and leadership

(07:55) No organization is perfect

(09:30) Writing Embrace the Suck: The Navy SEAL Way to an Extraordinary Life

(13:07) 3 categories of resilience: Challenge, Commitment and Control

(18:27) Tip: Looking at pain as a pathway to success

(20:32) Experiencing emotions through suffering practices

(22:21) Types of suffering and dealing with it

(23:55) Process of retaining resilience

(28:12) Orientation to personal values plays a huge role in resilience

(33:22) Tool: Dealing with temptation

(37:17) Keeping in mind the negative consequences of temptations

(40:32) Success comes from overcoming adversities

(42:28) Tip: Be a lifelong learner

(44:17) Tip: Only focus on what's in your immediate control

(47:42) Training is critically important for continuous improvement

(51:48) In times of recessions, companies should invest in developing their people

(53:14) Key takeaway

(56:40) Conclusion