I relate starting businesses to leading SEAL platoons—you must be a jack of all trades and a master of very few things. However, those “very few things” that you are master of are critical to your survival. In the beginning, you might be the “master” of your idea, but...
Okay, you might immediately say to yourself after reading the title of this post, “NO Way—SEAL training is waaaaay harder than starting a company!” Hear me out, because it’s true. Just to clarify, I’m not accounting for the physical abuse that is served up during SEAL...
Recently, I began coaching a remarkable entrepreneur named Robert (real name withheld). He graduated from a premier US university, and landed a successful fast-paced job in marketing, where he rose through the ranks so quickly that he was able to create his own...
One of Steve Martin’s great films is “The Jerk” – I grew up loving this movie. He stars as a budding entrepreneur who stumbles into success with an invention for eye glasses – The Opti-Grab – a dubious accessory designed with a handle that stops glasses from sliding...
In the movie Rambo, Sylvester Stallone plays a soldier named John Rambo who conducts a series of missions all by himself. The lone soldier acts so independently that today’s SEAL instructors often use the phrase “No Rambos” to define what a SEAL team is not about....
If there’s one thing you get accustomed to in the military, it is waiting. Senior officers and enlisted alike would joke about waiting for a plane, a ship, a meal – whatever it was – it was always time to “hurry up and wait.” I once spent over 33 days waiting to do...
