April 18, 2023 by Mike Manazir – (4-5 minutes) Trust is everything. It was 1994. I was in a Fokker 100 circling 14,000 feet above the Ft Bragg drop zone. I was doing my first free fall jump with the U.S. Army Golden Knights. I’d been trained as a pilot in the use of parachutes, … Read more
MIKE’S GUIDE TO EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION – PART THREE March 7, 2023 by Mike Manazir – (4-5 minutes) Chris Voss calls them calibrated questions. There is magic in the words, “Help me understand?” Many of us, especially A-type personality leaders are usually in a hurry to get to the bottom line of an issue or story … Read more
MIKE’S GUIDE TO EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION – PART TWO February 28, 2023 by Mike Manazir – (4-5 minutes) A group of Vistage CEOs were asked that question, and all hands went up. “Do members of your teams fail your expectations more often than they fulfill your expectations?” Some hands came down, but more than half remained … Read more
MIKE’S GUIDE TO EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION – PART ONE February 22, 2023 by Mike Manazir – (4-5 minutes) Communication is HUGE for high performing teams! I tell the story in my book Learn How to Lead to Win that as the Captain of the USS Nimitz, I was concerned about the morale of my crew, all … Read more
How do you deal with what goes through your head (and gut) after you’ve had a traumatic failure? February 13, 2023 by Mike Manazir – (1 minute) Click this link to hear Mike share one of his epic failures that required him to eject out of his F-14 Tomcat… and how he processed the trauma … Read more
This week’s blog post can be found here: https://sothereiwas.us/episode/39/
This week’s blog post can be found here: https://sothereiwas.us/episode/38/
January 24, 2023 by Mike Manazir – (4-5 minutes) In Chapter 22 of my book Learn How to Lead to Win: 33 Powerful Stories and Leadership Lessons, I talk about authentic inclusion and share how I would go in the galley on the USS Carl Vinson and grab a paper hat, wrap the apron around … Read more
January 18, 2023 by Mike Manazir – (4-5 minutes) In my book Learn How to Lead to Win: 33 Powerful Stories and Leadership Lessons, I share how I got my callsign “Nasty.” The story is a bit humorous and I’ll let you get it from the book. For today, I’d like to focus on “why” … Read more
January 10, 2023 by Mike Manazir — (4-5 minutes) I talk about this in the leadership lesson at the end of the second chapter of my book Learn How to Lead to Win: 33 Powerful Stories and Leadership Lessons. Teaching followership might be the most difficult facet of leading. You can’t just order people to … Read more