Valuetainment - Episode 463： Wartime Leaders DNA- What Makes Them Special？

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00:00:24.140 we're going to talk about the difference between a wartime leader and a peacetime leader this is a

00:00:28.060 topic that robert kiyosaki has been talking about after he saw the video on value tim and he had me

00:00:32.880 on i had him on but today we're going to talk about is it good to be a wartime leader today or is it good

00:00:38.340 to be a peacetime leader today and which one are you so before i get into it let's define what is

00:00:42.360 wartime and what is peacetime wartime is you're a startup the first year second year third year

00:00:47.880 you're about to go out of business you're running out of money every day a million different things

00:00:52.400 are hitting every day you got it's like the end of the world a peacetime is you're working for an

00:00:56.780 established company that's a fortune 500 company that has cash that is sitting on a lot of reserves

00:01:02.360 there's a massive team there's a lot of decisions to be made if you have a bad you know day you can

00:01:07.360 lean on somebody else there's a big difference there right now between wartime and peacetime i want to

00:01:12.900 give you an example what happened to me when i was in the military so i'm at the 101st airborne division

00:01:17.280 air assault we are invited to this one event and a general gets up and he talks and he gives this

00:01:23.860 message and he says you know pop up on he's given all this message for like 20 minutes and by the

00:01:28.200 time he was done i'm watching the entire audience because i'm a brand new private and i just got to

00:01:32.640 this unit and i saw some people got up and some people started clapping but it wasn't that kind of

00:01:37.800 a massive standing up roaring for this person right so then the next speaker came up and the next speaker

00:01:43.880 came up wasn't higher ranking than this general and the next speaker came up and he started talking

00:01:49.580 he wasn't as good of a speaker as the first one the first one was fiery loud all this stuff but the

00:01:57.660 second one got up was a little bit mild was a little bit calmer but he gave this speech and by the time

00:02:05.320 he was done everybody got up screaming off the top of their lungs for the second uh officer that spoke

00:02:14.300 so i went to my sergeant afterwards i said hey so i'm braxton what just happened over there that guy's

00:02:19.720 a higher ranking person the other guy's a lower ranking person why why didn't people cheer for him

00:02:25.380 as much as they did for the other person he says that's what you don't know let me tell you the

00:02:28.680 differences between these two leaders i said what is it he said the guy that got up he made it to the

00:02:34.440 top through doing all the right things because he came right school and he got the degree from the

00:02:40.180 right school the right last name all that stuff but he never did a lot of wartime he got all the

00:02:44.940 right badges but he never went to war he says the second guy that got up and he spoke he's been to

00:02:51.120 pretty much every single war you can think about the last 30 years and the people that were screaming

00:02:57.200 for him went with him because he was a wartime leader no matter what you ever do the first guy even

00:03:03.900 a bigger rank cannot get the kind of respect the guy got that went in the trenches with the rest of the

00:03:08.760 people you should see the looks on people's faces they were crying when this guy was giving a speech

00:03:12.600 as if this was like their father it was very emotional in that moment i saw the difference

00:03:18.200 between a wartime leader and a peacetime leader so that's the point when i'm trying to make you

00:03:23.040 what is a wartime and a peacetime so having said that let's get right into it wartime leaders a bad day

00:03:28.520 a bad week a bad month can cost a lot of casualties a peacetime leader a bad day a bad week or a bad month

00:03:37.900 won't affect them so it's kind of like it's just another bad month we'll make it up next month

00:03:42.100 it's just another bad quarter we'll make it up next month these guys don't have that kind of time so

00:03:46.980 it's always going going going because they know it's going to cost a lot of casualties number two

00:03:50.940 people follow wartime leaders because of their heart because of their charisma and because of their

00:03:57.160 emotion people believe we're going places people follow peacetime leaders because of their knowledge

00:04:04.120 and their intelligence oh wow she is so smart oh wow he has a right degree oh wow he is so intelligent

00:04:11.480 it's intelligence it's heart we're going places third one they communicate with all of their troops

00:04:18.440 one-on-one small group settings with four or five people and large group settings with hundreds if not

00:04:24.120 thousands of people but peacetime leaders they communicate through people and committees and if

00:04:29.700 they're going to give a message to you is large group very rarely one-on-one because you know it's

00:04:34.600 like you you can't just come and talk to me have you gone through your levels here what's going on

00:04:39.680 tell me what's going on i want to get to know even in the book linking on leadership in the book he talks

00:04:43.440 about circulate amongst your troops one of the strengths lincoln had is he would go out there and

00:04:48.520 circulate amongst his troops to find out what's going on soldiers had no idea they're all of a sudden

00:04:53.120 walking it's like what wait the president is here i'm a private so tell me private johnson how are things

00:04:58.800 going oh my gosh oh president lincoln it's like no don't worry about it so tell me what's going on

00:05:03.860 are you kidding me that's what you call a wartime that's why lincoln is considered one of the greatest

00:05:08.040 presidents of all time next one quick decisions they threw a leader meaning about what's going on so

00:05:14.540 what do we know about okay here's what we're doing let's go boom quick decisions on this side

00:05:18.760 methodical decisions through committee if you've ever seen a movie ford versus ferrari and you know that

00:05:24.420 scene when shelby comes up and he sits there and he's like watching the folder goes from

00:05:28.700 this person to that person to this person to that person and he's sitting in there says

00:05:31.980 why did we lose you embarrass me and bb is sitting sitting back there and he says uh if you if i can

00:05:38.320 be frank with you i can tell you something here you wasted four p i watched four people go through

00:05:43.640 the folder to do until it came into your hands if you're gonna let me do this you gotta give me all

00:05:47.860 authority for me to do this and then boom they went to work and obviously you don't have the story

00:05:51.060 ends committees ford individual tesla remembers like the best example i can give you right there here's

00:05:58.360 what we're gonna be doing let me talk to 74 different people before we make this decision

00:06:02.280 next one they're comfortable breaking things as long as progress is being made wartime leaders are

00:06:09.660 famous for breaking things they're going to break things but they're going to make progress peacetime

00:06:13.720 leaders they're very wary about breaking things so the decisions are a little bit more about

00:06:19.640 perfection what can we do to make the perfect decision progress perfection progress perfection so now

00:06:26.740 you're watching and say well pat it should okay can can i go out and work with a wartime or peace

00:06:32.760 time if you work in a startup environment and you're there when the company's about to go out of

00:06:36.940 business every day and they make it somebody in there was a wartime leader there has to be a wartime

00:06:42.160 leader somebody somebody had to know that they can handle the decisions momentous decisions here's

00:06:47.320 what we're going to be doing if you work for a larger corporation and you're always trying to get

00:06:51.900 done and you have to wait three minutes six three months six months for a decision to be made

00:06:55.240 your peacetime i got a call from an old colleague of mine and i was in detroit when he called me

00:06:59.820 we're on the phone together and he's expressing his frustration okay and he says pat here's the

00:07:05.900 difference between you and i you're an entrepreneur i'm not i can't make the decisions like you guys are

00:07:11.280 making we're part of a big company we have this and we have that we can't make it takes six months if

00:07:16.940 you wanted to do something you make the decision like this because he's working here with a peacetime 0.74

00:07:21.460 type of an environment over here's a wartime type of an environment so for you somebody may say well

00:07:25.820 pat i don't know if i can work with a wartime i'd much rather work with a peacetime okay no problem so

00:07:31.400 couple things to identify with that when does it make sense to work with a wartime when does it make

00:07:35.540 sense to work with a peacetime if you're in the face of playing offense and coming up this is what

00:07:42.100 you want if you're in the face of you no longer want crazy crazy pressure you want stability i will

00:07:48.880 never forget the day we started our own insurance company i held a meeting on tuesday night it went

00:07:55.380 till four o'clock the following day i held a meeting on wednesday night september 24th of 09 if you look

00:08:01.620 up the calendar i think the 24th falls on a wednesday so either wednesday or thursday i think it's a

00:08:06.440 wednesday i hold a meeting when i'm holding a meeting i get up and i say here's what we're doing

00:08:11.940 we're getting ready to start a company and this is what's going to take place there's a 90% chance

00:08:17.720 we're going to go out of business 90 this is recorded by the way 90 chance we're going to go

00:08:23.180 out of business 90 chance i don't have as much money as other companies my saving is in this my

00:08:28.800 saving isn't that i don't have that they have 400 billion dollars we don't have any of that stuff

00:08:32.380 there's a 90 chance i want to be sued there's a 90 chance i want to put out of business there's a 90

00:08:36.840 i'm giving all this stuff so then i stop and i said if you want safety and you're above a certain age

00:08:43.080 where you cannot take risks i suggest you don't come with me because there's a 90 chance i'm going

00:08:47.960 to go out of business if you want safety here's where to go if you want risk you come with me what

00:08:53.100 do you want to do one lady gets up we'll never forget it till today her name is sharon and she 0.99

00:08:57.940 was one of the most honest people we had she got up and she said i just have to be honest with you i'm

00:09:03.460 61 i can't afford that i love you i would love to fall i just can't do it because if you go i can't

00:09:09.420 afford that kind of stuff i said i have nothing but respect i wrote the numbers down of people i

00:09:13.480 said call this person she called the person fast forward two years later they both came back the

00:09:17.680 person i gave the number to and her they ended up working with us two years later but at that time

00:09:22.420 i gave the options right some people cannot afford to work with a wartime some people want to work

00:09:27.180 with a large company stuff if you're 59 years old you're kind of like i don't know if i can take that

00:09:31.280 kind of risk i want to work somewhere that's a lot safer i get it but the moral of the story is this

00:09:35.560 today when you're watching this we have a pandemic going on coronavirus people are afraid

00:09:42.120 covet 19 everybody's shaking everybody's nervous everybody is looking to see what to do this model

00:09:50.640 during times like this fails miserably these are the times that you go here these are the times

00:09:57.700 where exes call their ex-boyfriends and they call them because they have more trust in that

00:10:04.960 person's confidence to know that they breed confidence during times like this because they

00:10:09.480 say should i worry is everything going to be okay what why are you calling your ex-boss why are you

00:10:16.720 calling because that person was a wartime leader because that person doesn't lose cool during times

00:10:22.440 like this they go calm poised and they give you confidence remember your people will feel your fear

00:10:29.880 your people will feel your confidence not through statements not through talks through a video like

00:10:36.460 this i'm talking to you're doing a zoom people are looking at you saying he is afraid or he's not afraid

00:10:41.080 i feel the guy's confidence i feel her confidence man she looks nervous did you see the lip did you see

00:10:48.320 the voice it's cracking a little bit she's nervous everybody when you're a leader is watching to see if

00:10:54.480 you're here or if you're here during times of crisis now let's address the other point here

00:10:58.780 is it easier for peacetime to be a wartime or is it easier for wartime to be a peacetime keep this in

00:11:04.700 mind peacetime leaders typically went through the process of they went to the right schools they did

00:11:10.320 the right thing they want to got the nice degree columbia yale harvard wharton stanford you know the right

00:11:17.900 way of going through it right so everything's been kind of planned have been kind of known what they're

00:11:22.600 going to be doing since they were 14 years old i'm going to go to this school i'm going to go get

00:11:27.160 this degree then i'm going to get my mba and then i'm going to go work for this company and i'm going

00:11:30.560 to be this these guys on the other hand uh man challenging families dad told them you will never

00:11:37.340 amount to anything elon musk you ain't nobody you're going to come back to the country there's no way in 0.99

00:11:41.940 the world you're going to make it in america you're a fool to think you're going to make it in america

00:11:44.820 you're out of your mind you know mom gives you up for adoption she couldn't handle having you 0.94

00:11:49.920 because she couldn't afford the finances not because she didn't love you but the day you she

00:11:53.160 were born she gave you up to adoption and that stuck with your name is steve jobs i'm talking about

00:11:58.020 stories like that you go through and you're like you know what screw this whole thing i'm gonna prove

00:12:01.840 a point to the world that's wartime wartime wartime wartime eventually is forced to learn how to be

00:12:10.100 peacetime because they have to they have to they have no control because when there is no war

00:12:18.260 they have to or else apple will fire you and then you have to go start pixar and then you come back

00:12:26.660 because you were a wartime leader you did not know how to be a peacetime leader then when you come back

00:12:32.140 around after pixar then you're a peacetime leader and a wartime leader because you've never learned

00:12:37.740 you've matured steve jobs you gotta learn that part right so this person will be forced

00:12:44.640 to learn how to be like this but very rarely will a peacetime leader be put in a situation to be like

00:12:52.060 this because it's scary it's easier for them to learn how to be like this than for them to learn

00:12:58.700 how to be wartime because some of it is life experiences how do you teach a kid that grew up

00:13:04.520 on the streets who's a ufc fighter but he didn't become a ufc fighter because you know their parents

00:13:10.960 were good uh money makers and they say i want you to go take an mma class or why don't you go take

00:13:15.020 some mixed martial arts no the kid that fights in mma who grew up in the streets in boston and he was

00:13:21.420 fighting since he was four years old or he's irish he grew up in streets with nothing and you have to

00:13:25.760 fight everybody that guy's been beat up since he was four five six years old he's learned how to stand

00:13:30.180 up for himself he doesn't have the little fears that somebody else is going to have that didn't go into

00:13:34.200 the street fighting these guys were street fighting regularly very hard to teach that so these guys can go

00:13:39.620 here these guys can go here the best situation is when they work together by the way if they can find

00:13:44.140 a way to team up it's by far the best situation and by the way they know each other but deep down

00:13:50.460 inside they know they need each other if you get a situation like this where these two guys team up

00:13:54.940 that's money right there that's like the way to do it and last but not least remember over here

00:13:59.840 they're the favorites they're the underdogs i don't know why wartime leaders are always the

00:14:04.700 types of underdogs churchill was an underdog man i they just wait till you see what we're gonna

00:14:09.060 are you kidding me you are not gonna do nothing to britain because do you know it's the underdog

00:14:13.500 they're underestimating me that's the underdog mentality of wartime these guys have always

00:14:18.820 been the guy that's supposed to be who he's supposed to be or she's supposed to be very big difference

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Valuetainment - May 05, 2020

Episode 463： Wartime Leaders DNA- What Makes Them Special？

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