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In the Seat is a leadership podcast built from raw thinking.Each episode centers on a real trade space leaders face - speed versus deliberation, clarity versus empathy, control versus trust - and walks through the tension without pretending it resolves cleanly.This isn’t…
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The Talks: Another Hill (opens the original)
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Setting a goal is usually the easy part. The harder part is discovering that the path toward it is rarely as simple as it looked from the beginning. This Talk uses my pursuit of a perfect fitness score as the backdrop for a broader discussion about difficult goals: failed attempts, changing plans, frustration, and discovering new problems only after solving the old ones. The goal stayed the same. My understanding of what it required kept changing. Progress and failure can happen at the same time
The Talks: You Won’t Feel Ready (opens the original)
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Every new level brings authority, responsibility, and problems you have never actually carried before. Schools, doctrine, observation, and previous assignments can prepare you, but none of them let you be the commander before you are the commander. This Talk came from a conversation with a junior officer who was apprehensive about taking command—and the realization that the apprehension itself wasn't unusual. Experience doesn't necessarily make the unknown go away. It changes your relationship w
The Talks: The Objective Part Isn’t You (opens the original)
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A few months ago, What Are We Measuring? asked a basic question: when we evaluate another leader, are we measuring them against an objective standard—or against our own idea of what good looks like? I was uncomfortable with how much of my own perspective inevitably entered that judgment. I’m less uncomfortable with it now. An evaluator’s job is not to somehow become perfectly objective. It is to give an honest, fair assessment based on what they know, what they have seen, and what they believe.
Intro: The Talks (opens the original)
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The Talks: Why It Exists In the Seat starts with the questions I am still working through. The Talks is where I take the ideas that have become clearer over time and talk about the answers: what I think, why I think it, the experience that shaped it, and where it may matter. Some of those conversations will grow out of questions raised on In the Seat. Others come from leadership ideas developed over years, or newer thoughts that were already formed before I recorded them. The two formats are con
A Model or a Warning? (opens the original)
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I put a lot of energy into command. I’m present, available, involved, and usually operating at a pretty aggressive pace. I’ve always viewed that as a positive example of what engaged leadership can look like. But I started wondering whether some people see something different. Instead of thinking, I want to do that someday, do they think, There is no way I want my life to look like that? This episode wrestles with the difference between modeling commitment and accidentally making command look mo
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