0:00 who are you and where are you going what do you [Music] want hello and welcome to business lessons from the military I'm your host Kevin bemel and we are here every Tuesday at 10:00 amm Pacific time to talk about military history Doctrine and the practices of great military leaders all by way of distilling from them
0:36 lessons that we can apply to our businesses and professional practices so today I am going to talk about perhaps the greatest uh individual in 20th century history and that is Sir Winston Churchill so most people people who know about Churchill uh know about know about his being prime minister uh during the second world war he came he U he gained
1:11 the Premiership um after uh Chamberlain's essentially disastrous meeting with Adolf Hitler in which he declared there would be peace in our time um through the um uh um I'm I'm going up on the word but but through through essentially um giving into many of of Hitler's demands um and and and thereby gaining nothing of the sort um but indeed uh Churchill's um career and his involvement in
1:48 military matters uh began at the end of the 19th century um and he was he was essentially a soldier um he he as I recall went to Sandhurst um which is the the um British military school um and he was he was he was a soldier as I mentioned he was also a journalist uh at um um documenting military Affairs um as well as a civilian leader and so today I'm going to take you through uh a a
2:26 short summary of the military aspects of church Hill's life and then distill from them the the lessons as as is the key point of of the show so pardon me I mentioned that uh Winston Churchill's military career began in the late 19th century uh he he was a uh military officer in the fourth Queen's own HS that was his unit in 1895 so um in that same year uh he was sent
3:04 to Cuba um where he was an observer in the in Cuba's war for independence from Spain um and that was I I'm the first uh sort of military incident uh in his life um from there he went to uh British India and India was a colony of of Great Britain at that at that time uh and he fought with the malakan field forces against the poshon tribesmen so he he got to see combat um you know pretty
3:39 pretty early on and then in the Sudan in 1898 uh he participated in the Battle of Oman durman um where he served under Lord kiter uh one of the famous uh um Generals in in British military history and he actually witnessed the last cavalry charge HSE mounted cavalry charge in British military history um and and it should be noted the Battle of omdurman was was quite a a bloody
4:15 battle um I've read descriptions of it and and you know we're talking about um pistols and and swords you know Cavalry Charges were still um made with mounted Horsemen with swords drawn kind of thing and they would slash at the the enemy ve very very bloody so then into the um last year of the 19th century 1899 through 1900 so uh Churchill went to South Africa where as a journalist he
4:53 covered the second boore war which lasted from 1899 to 1902 uh and and Churchill was um on a train when it was attacked by the BS and despite being a journalist he and not actually being u a sign you know part of the military at that time he organized a defense of the train um he was not successful he was and he was taken he was taken captive and he was um sent to
5:28 a prisoner of orc Camp a p camp um and and thereafter he made an absolutely amazing escape from this p camp where where he he snuck out and um you know crept through South Africa eventually uh he got on board a train hidden away in um uh it was a some sort of Agricultural Product that that smelled horribly and he escaped from South Africa on this train and he became
6:05 a national hero in Great Britain um bought when his escapades uh became known which which as a journalist Churchill made sure they got known um after his Escape he rejoined the British Army and he took he took part in the relief of Lady Smith and ptor um the relief of of British forces um who were who were um uh you know fighting against basically trapped by the Boors um from there uh Churchill
6:40 moved out of uniformed military service and entered political life during World War I from 1914 to uh 1918 um so first he served as the first lord of the admiralty this would be essentially the equivalent of the chief of Naval operations here in the United States uh and and he held that position from 1911 until 1915 and he modernized the Royal Navy in
7:16 preparation for World War I which uh he he he saw coming he saw conflict coming basically he also Advocate although he was first Lord of the admiralty he advoc ated for the development of the tank um and which um was used a little bit in World War I um and um if you've heard me talk about Patton I I've talked about um Patton's involvement with uh with tanks during World War
7:51 I uh and and and of course tanks became uh a crucial part of uh uh World War II uh Warfare and and beyond that and and largely remain so uh today uh among the things that Churchill did during World War I is he organized the gipo campaign in 1915 it was an attempt to open up a new front against the Ottoman Empire uh which um uh- which was a dominant power
8:30 in uh Eastern Europe and and and sort of a gateway to the Middle East and in the event the campaign was a major disaster for uh for for the for the World War I allies um there were heavy heavy casualties and as a result uh Hitler resigned from the resigned his his position as first Lord of the admiralty now I think it's it's U crucial to note that having orchestrated
9:08 this military disaster uh Churchill accepted the responsibility and resigned his position this is not something we see in in the Contemporary world where politicians um boldly take responsibility when they make huge mistakes um and and then thereafter in 1916 uh he uh commanded a battalion on the Western Front as a lieutenant
9:43 colonel in the Royal Scott fuselier so he went back into uniform in essence um and Churchill was at heart an extremely patriotic Britain and I think that he felt he couldn't stand aside or stand on the sidelines I should say during World War I when so many of his countrymen were being killed and wounded and where um I I I think he he he felt that the the values of of Great Britain were
10:20 really on the line against what he viewed is the hegemony of of Kaiser Wilhelm um and and and Germany and and the U it was it was called the Central Powers in World War I not not the axis so um thereafter uh Churchill kind of was in a political Wilderness for quite a while um but he eventually um regained his footing in political life and he was U became part of the government um in
10:57 the 30s and and and as I mentioned in in my very opening in in May of 1940 after uh Chamberlain's disastrous um meetings with with meetings with Hitler and and and the you know the the advance of of Nazi Germany in Europe uh Hitler I'm sorry uh Churchill was uh asked to become Prime Minister sister and to lead Great Britain through what he subsequently
11:35 called its its Darkest Hours so of the many things that Hitler is famous for in World War II first and foremost were his speeches his you know we will fight on the beaches we will fight we will fight here um you know um and um all we have to give is our blood sweat um it's four things Blood Sweat something and tears that's it's where the the band Blood Sweat and Tears gets their name but Churchill actually mention four qualities he also um was
12:11 you know he described um the Battle of Britain um as um as you know the pilots this is our this is our F their finest finest Hour um and and and so many um absolutely iconic speeches that he gave during World War II that really booed the spirits of of not only his countrymen but allies throughout the world Americans the French uh Etc uh he
12:46 he had a way of speaking and a way of um demonstrating that no matter how Bleak things appeared um the allly eyes would in the end uh be victorious um he played a crucial role in the Battle of Britain in 1940 um ensuring that the Royal Air Force was well supported against the the German lift wafa um and he was and and where I
13:21 think Churchill perhaps um was most Central to winning World War II was in creating the uh tripartite if you will Alliance that included Great Britain the Soviet Union and the United States so um while this the Soviet Union is um credited for essentially bringing so many soldiers and and other military
13:57 personnel um to the fight and the United States was called the great arsenal of democracy um it's it's it's well to remember that uh Joseph Stalin uh originally started out as an ally of Adolf Hitler um and and they had an they sealed a non-aggression pact um in the late 1930s um that ended up with the partitioning of Poland after uh uh not Germany attacked and and and O took over
14:32 Poland uh and and um it it it it wasn't until um Stalin felt betrayed by uh by Hitler that uh you know he he he essentially turned away from that that PCT uh Franklin Delano Roosevelt too was uh a a reluctant uh participant in what was going on in Europe um he did his best uh to keep America out of
15:07 especially active combat uh he he he did many things to support in particular Great Britain uh through lendle and and through the Convoy providing uh um first ships to Great Britain that they could use for convoys across the North Atlantic and later having American ships uh engage in those convoys as well um but uh um it was really Church Hill's diplomacy uh with Franklin Delano
15:43 Roosevelt um despite the the the Shameless way that Roosevelt um had treated uh Churchill when he first met him many years before and even during World War II uh Churchill worked extremely hard to keep the alliance together uh much much harder than roosevel or Stalin ever did um and and in so doing saw to it that a united front against Nazi Germany and the axis um you know be defeated U I
16:23 should say the united front um defeated Nazi Germany and and the Axis power so uh that that really stands as um you know like I said perhaps Church Hill's greatest achievement in World War II uh he he was also uh very involved in the various campaigns during uh um especially the major campaigns during um World War II including the North African campaign where he supported uh General
16:59 um Montgomery's victory at Al alamain and the D-Day invasion in 1944 where the uh allies um did a coordinated Landing in Normandy and and began the liberation of of Western Europe and those Landings were primarily American British and Canadian troops although there were other Allied troops involved as as well uh and then interestingly enough after World War II was over uh Churchill was basically
17:35 turned out of power uh by by his countrymen and uh he he eventually served another stint as prime minister um but um during the postor War II period uh Churchill's influence was really in identifying that um the the former Allied of the United States and Great Britain Soviet Union really posed um the biggest threat to the West he indeed uh coined the term uh Iron
18:12 Curtain in a speech that he gave in 1946 uh and and um and he you know warned about uh the the the the dangers of the rise Rising you know communist power um and then when he returned to the Prime ministership in 1951 where he was until 1955 um he he oversaw uh Britain becoming a a nuclear power and he restructured the military so this summary of of Churchill's
18:49 involvement in in military Affairs uh you know it's it's short um you know I didn't want to go into a long um a lot a lot of detail there are numerous uh fantastic books on Church Hill's life and and those that focus on his military history I think I have 10 or more books on Church Hill's life from Full uh short biographies to to longer complete biographies to uh one book that just
19:24 talks about his exploits during the boore War uh um and to his relations with uh with with FDR um there are just almost unlimited marvelous books about uh Winston Churchill and I I can encourage you enough to uh to you know get some of these books uh in the I will put some of the the books in the show notes um so that if if you're you know looking for specific recommendations uh
19:59 you know I I'll I'll put some there for you um and as always when I put books in The Links will be um will be uh what do you call them there'll be links to Amazon where um if if you click on the link and buy something I get a couple of pennies so um they you'll see there's a little language right after the link that says paid leads so um their affiliate links is is this the term I'm looking for so okay so let's let's look at some lessons now uh that that we can learn from the military aspects of of
20:36 church Hill's career now now by the way you might ask well wait his entire career was was military no that is that's actually not the case um he uh Winston Churchill uh was a writer and in fact most of the money he made actually came from his writing both as a journalist and writing writing books so so um post World War II he wrote a six volume history of World War II it is brilliant It is Well written um you know
21:11 people will say well it was you know Churchill telling you know his version of the war to make himself uh to make himself look good uh yes I think there's some truth to that that is what Memoirs do um and I've I've met I've read uh uh uh Eisenhower's Memoir I've read Memoirs of a number of the people involved in the Pacific Theater and but none of them are as brilliantly written as Winston Churchill he he was a a writer par
21:46 excellance uh he wrote histories he wrote a history of Marboro to whom he was distantly related and and H gosh I mean he extensive extensive writings uh he although this was not a professional Endeavor he was also uh quite a good painter he loved to paint uh and uh he loved to uh to Garden as well so um he was a very he had very broad interests he was he was I think it's reasonable to say a renaissance man in many ways um he he
22:23 loved food he loved um he loved uh wine especially champagne man after my own heart right he loved whiskies uh he loved whiskey especially whiskey and soda um people there were people who claimed that he was drunk throughout World War II that's that's not the case he he drank highly highly diluted whiskies and sodas um and uh you know I I think that's probably what helped him get through the tremendous stress of of of of being a World War II leader so um but focusing back now on
23:00 his his the military aspects of his career so um throughout all the things that he did um first of all uh Churchill understood the value of leadership and especially Visionary leadership now whether it was as a war correspondent leading a defense of a train in in the boore war where he was quick to see that somebody had to take charge and try and
23:36 mount to defense or the the the sort of truly Visionary leadership he exercised post World War I where he worked to make the West aware of the threat posed by the Soviet Union he he he saw where events needed to go and he sought to lead other people there not through bullying them but through inspiring them
24:11 through explaining to them how what the their Mutual interests were in working together to pursue whatever goals it was that he he thought needed to be pursued so um whether it was essentially Charming Joseph Stalin um to you know stay on board with the Allies whether it was looking overlooking the snubs by
24:46 Roosevelt and proclaiming the great friendship that they had um in in the interest of uh Unity among the Allies all of these were traits of truly great leadership and and first and foremost that that is the quality that uh that that Winston Churchill epitomizes in his military career and if you are interested in becoming a better leader you you will find no better source for learning how to do that than reading
25:22 about Winston Churchill's life okay so that that's that's number one number two is adaptability and learning from failure so uh Churchill he was he was not a um gifted soldier in the sense of you know he he was you know super agile or anything like that uh he he he was not he he he was not he did his best uh is is what I can say
25:58 um but um he wasn't a natural combatant in that sense um nor was he immune from making mistakes especially disastrous mistakes so um the the gipo campaign stands out as his most uh his his most his largest failure I should say and yet despite despite what happened at galipoli he took responsibility for it resigned as first Lord he learned what
26:33 he could learn from it and he went on to even greater Heights as as a leader and that is really the quality of an individual we're all going to experience failures we're all going to make mistakes in some cases colossal mistakes the question is how are we going to handle them are we going to insist that we did not make a mistake that it's other people's fault that this was a plot against me against
27:11 us or are we going to accept responsibility make our mayaula in a sincere way and buckle down and and learn from those failures and and and then use that knowledge to go on to do better things in the future and so that really I think is is is the key um is so much of the key to to Churchill's success so um and and I'm GNA talk about something that's um
27:48 that's kind of related to that and that is he innovated and he took risks so of of course the galip campaign was was a risk um but he also he he experimented with new technologies such as tanks in World War I radar in World War II he he listened to his advisors who had ideas for for you know new military Technologies uh and uh he was an
28:23 absolute Fountain Head of new ideas in fact I don't recall which military leader it was but there was one who said you know he came up with a hundred new ideas every day and you know the the the challenge was to sift through them to find you know the one that was H you know potentially valuable so uh Churchill came up with the idea for the sort of floating Harbors that were used at Normandy after the beach head was secured
28:59 um they didn't work particularly well um but they they had some utility so he was always thinking looking for you know what can be done to make things more successful what can we try he was very very open to taking to trying new things and and taking risks and therefore risking failure uh he he learned often from from failure and to come back ever stronger so I think that those those two lessons are are are ones that we in
29:36 business really need to uh to to understand so I was in a meeting this morning uh I have this meeting uh the first Tuesday Morning of of every month of each month it's a group of military veterans we get together and and share business leads Etc and then we do a breakout group and one of our members has been experimenting a lot with various types of artificial intelligence not just large language models the sort of chat gpts and such but others and one of
30:11 the things I'm looking to do is to figure out how do I automate the uh uploading of a video on one YouTube channel to another YouTube channel right and so uh my the my colleague his name is Paul uh with with honorable marketing Paul Paul MTZ um he suggested a tool called make IIA which is an IIA tool for automating processes right and so before the show I had a few minutes and I went
30:47 on and and first I found something called maker IIA and and I I'm like this I don't I don't see where this will work I'm thinking you know Paul Paul is crazy right and so they had an automated chat bot there and and I asked them you know can you do this and they say no we don't do this and I thought well he didn't he actually didn't say maker IIA he said make IIA and so then I looked up specifically make IIA and sure enough there it was um and it appears that this is a tool that will accomplish what I needed to do so you know this idea of of
31:23 trying new things innovating this is something we have to be doing consistently in our businesses and professions if we want to stay competitive if if we're not doing it our competitors are some of our competitors are and they will roll over us so uh we H and we have to be willing to risk failure if we want to figure out how to use new tools how to take on how to innovate maybe take on a new uh line of work or something like that and so
31:59 that we can keep our businesses vital and and at the tops of their fields okay so so those those two uh go together I think another lesson that we can learn from uh from Winston Churchill's military career is the value and the power of strategic alliances so as I mentioned the most notable being Great Britain the United States and the Soviet Union right the th those three countries really secured victory for the Allies in
32:37 World War II and it was no small feat as I've mentioned a couple of times already keeping that Alliance together um and Stalin was a diletant of the first order and extremely suspicious of Great Britain and the United States and uh FDR uh was was a diletant of his own kind he he had he had an ER of superiority um that graded on a lot of people um including by the way my father
33:12 who frankly detested FDR um all the all of his life that that I knew him certainly um and so it's not easy to keep together a strategic Alliance like that now during war time um we will you know it's it's understandable to to work to keep together such fractious Personalities in a strategic Alliance now in the business world I'm not I'm not sure that that we we would want to in in create such a a
33:48 strategic Alliance where the parties are suspicious of each other where one of them is lording it over the others I'm not sure that may sense as uh a good strategic Alliance but even the best strategic Partners who who share the same goals Etc can come to loggerheads and so Church Hill's example of mediating between his strategic allies his strategic partners and and his success in doing that that is where I think we
34:24 can take the best lesson in when we talk about strategic alliances and business right so the the the key is to find good partners that can make long-term allies that that the the combination of of the two or the three is greater than just the sum of the two or the three if you know what I mean and and then work very hard to maintain those alliances okay and and the fact of the matter matter is growing into a huge
35:00 organization today for for many of us um is is is not necessarily the right thing to do I know here in California once you hit five employees the regulation to which your business is subject is so onerous um I I I joked to someone last week when I was dealing with this that um I had just been briefed on a number of new ways that California is trying to convince businesses to leave the state it it it's it's truly extraordinary on on some level um but
35:38 um uh oh shoot I lost the train my train of thought uh okay well I for forgot where I was going with that wow having a senior moment so in in any event uh we um we we want to U build uh long-term um alliances um that that that that will endure um and and and and and Churchill is a model in in and how to do that okay
36:16 uh next Crisis ma crisis management and decisionmaking Under Pressure so um whether it was the Battle of Britain where where um where the the lwfa was bombing uh German cities killing civilians forcing them to take shelter in the tubes which is the the the subway whether it was the reigning of V1 and V2 rockets on uh Great Britain toward the end of the war that also were killing
36:53 civilians um these kinds of crisis had to be properly dealt with so that um the British would not lose heart and would continue to support the war effort so we we tend to look at uh World War II as the Allies inevitably were going to win but if if you can place yourself in the time especially starting in the late 1930s it was by no means a sure thing
37:30 that the United States was going to enter the war um while FDR provided ever more support to Great Britain in terms of material or material um it wasn't until uh the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor that that the United States was for sure going to enter World War II and in fact when when the attack in Pearl Harbor was announced in England uh
38:06 Churchill B supposedly sighed a huge sigh of relief because he knew at that point that the United States would come into the war and at that point he felt that the Allied victory was assured now that was preent on his part but um the United States was not at all prepared for War uh when when we entered uh World War II at the very end of 1941 and in fact um the the the victories that we had in 1942 were were tenuous at best um for
38:46 example the victory at Midway um really only happened because um the the Navy Naval intelligence broke the Japanese code and so um we knew that they were going to attack at Midway and we were able to mount a defense that basically um badly um damag the the Imperial Japanese Navy uh but we none of these things were inevitable it was not inevitable that the code was going to be broken it was not inevitable that um that uh Enigma
39:23 the Enigma uh code in in Europe was going to be broken it was not uh inevitable that nor the battle the The Landings at Normandy on D-Day were going to be successful so they they were um it was not it was not a given that Hitler was going to be defeated in the Battle of the Bulge it was a near thing so uh all of always what what seems to be in hindsight you know perfectly clear that this is how things were going to work out no not at
39:59 all um there were always crises to be managed there were always decisions that had to be made under enormous pressure and and and Churchill was able to make manage those crises and make those decisions uh and and oftentimes make the best decisions that could be made given the circumstances that were that were there so uh for example uh FDR um in the very early in in 1942 he wanted to go directly into
40:37 Mainland Europe uh and start fighting there and Churchill was very skeptical of that the American troops were were were really untested and to go up against battle hardened Nazi forces and and and Italian forces uh he thought what would be a big mistake because if the if the United States military suffered some big defeats early on in the war um he he he felt that that might dishearten Americans and cause them to either sue for peace or or withdraw or
41:13 just not fight as tenaciously as as needed to happen and so it was really Churchill Who convinced Roosevelt to launch Operation Torch that was the invasion of North Africa where the you know although um um the the The Desert Fox uh the great German Commander who's I'm going up on his name but anyway although he was a brilliant German Commander um he he uh he was he was sick um and and uh and so you know
41:49 the the American forces were um um the Africa core um Irwin raml uh raml was a great Commander one of the best that the Germans had but he he he got sick during the African campaign and and had to go back to Germany for a while and the fact of the matter is the troops in nor the German troops in North Africa were not uh the elite of the elite uh so uh you know Churchill had the good sense to see that the American forces need to needed to be blooded in a
42:25 less um a less harsh uh en environment um well I mean the desert environment was harsh but I mean in a a less uh militarily harsh environment if you will of North Africa before they attempted to uh fight the Nazis on on Mainland Europe so the this kind of uh decision making under pressure and the ability to help others make uh Intelligent Decisions this was a skill that Church Hill had and this is
43:02 something that we need to develop so in our businesses when we hit moments of Crisis what do we do right and and and how do we how do we help other people through it so um I I see this you you might think well you know there's no such thing as a crises in administrating probates no there are um often often times things happen unexpectedly it can it can derail an entire plan how are those going to be handled and uh one of the things I've
43:38 seen is is is oftentimes uh or not oftentimes but at least sometimes people want to sort of surrender to the the forces that are trying to knock things off the rails in order to just get back on track as quickly as possible um with you know and and and you know kind of throw money at the problem to solve it rather than to think more strategically more operationally more tactically about how to deal with this so part of my job in in administrating a probate especially
44:14 is is to is to manage those crises uh effectively and and to make those decisions and and get other the other people involved on board so that we present a united front um against you know whoever it is that's causing the problem uh in in the hopes of of defeating you know that that person or that group of people okay so critical skill that we can learn from uh Winston Church Hill's U military career uh okay um and and that goes
44:52 along so the the um the crisis management and decision decision making Under Pressure so um that that is of a part with um being a good communicator and especially uh a Persuader and and and two that that this is where again Churchill really shined he he was able to persuade his fellow countrymen to to to stay on board with with backing the fight he was able to convince Stalin and Churchill and later
45:28 uh uh Truman uh what was the the best direction to take often times uh and and so the ability to communicate clearly but in a in a way that moved people to act in the way that he saw it was absolutely crucial to his success as a military leader okay so and look part of it was there was a certain Elan about Winston Churchill um that that was demonstrated from the time he he he was involved in the bore War um so
46:05 there was a certain Charisma about him that's but but that was a Charisma I think that he created he was not born charismatic he learned how to be charismatic that may sound strange but but that that is that is the case and and and and so we can learn to do that as well we can learn to talk to other people in a way that uh attracts them to us that that causes them to listen to us and when I say listen I mean really hear what it is we have to say so that we can
46:42 exercise some persuasion over them now I'm not suggesting that um we become you know conmen um that is that is that's not what I mean at all what I mean is to develop the communication skills in in order that that people really take note of what we say take it on board think about it and and and give us the opportunity uh to to convince them that our perspective is is a perspective uh
47:20 you know is is the perspective that that they should adopt okay uh and and it takes it takes a lot of practice it takes a lot of um gaining insight into people to be willing to talk to them and most important to be willing to listen to them so so much of being a good communicator is being a good listener and Churchill was a good listener not withstanding all of his speeches and all of that uh Churchill liked to talk to people but he also loved to listen to people to hear
47:57 their ideas uh and and to see what he could find out from them that would be useful and we can do the same thing so I was having a a conversation with someone I think it was yesterday uh talking about how um submarine so um the the the the captain of a submarine if he's going to be successful uh he learns to listen to
48:35 every crew member from the most Junior to the most senior and uh oh I I remember what it was uh so A friend of mine has a colleague who used to be a Submariner um but he never he never became either an executive officer or the the commanding officer of a submarine and and he was talking about that and I said well the fact that he never attained that level of leadership is telling you something about his ability to communicate with the other Sailors on the boat okay a commanding officer of a
49:13 submarine learns how to do that and that that is his greatest skill and this individual based on what my friend was explaining about how he was behaving and the things he was doing clearly hadn't learned that okay so we don't have to command a submarine in order to learn how to listen to other people hear them out really focus on what it is they're trying to communicate to us ask them questions so that we can better understand what it is they're telling us Etc all of these are these communication
49:49 skills are things we can learn and and in and in part we can learn them from studying uh Church Hills life um okay so I'm I'm going to wrap up there um and and and again urge you to uh to study Church Hill's life study uh how he uh interacted with other people how he gained insight into what was happening in the world um his political skills all of these uh his his he was a
50:25 tremendously um uh uh loyal uh individual who's very loyal to his King and Country um all of these are qualities that we can learn about by studying his life and I I I and and and beyond that and if you saw my my show jigger's place last week um I was talking about the the novel ivanho Churchill's life is also a rolicking good adventure story and so in addition to what we can learn from it we
51:00 can also just enjoy the the the Great Adventures on on on which he you know pursued and and and and that all comes to life quite vividly so um real quickly I'm just going to rehash um the the the lessons that we can learn from church Hill's military career first of all the import importance of leadership especially Visionary leadership the import of adaptability and learning from failure coupled with being Innovative and taking risks knowing that we are going to fail
51:35 sometimes but but that's all part of learning making strategic alliances and keeping them together learning how to manage crisis and to make decisions Under Pressure uh especially by um learning how to communicate well and to be persuasive uh and then uh f um yeah and and and uh uh I think I talked about building morale and Trust as well so okay so I thank you so much for joining me especially those of you who join me live it's always a kick to have you uh here and uh um so I appreciate it
52:15 um tomorrow at 10: am uh Pacific time is my show people making money I'm going to be talking about a book called The Art of negotiating it's it's a book that was written a number of decades ago it's a classic um but but it's you know one of the skills we need to master in in any business or professional pra practice is to be able to negotiate and so I'm going to give you some some tips uh I'm going to introduce you to that book and and give you an idea of some of the things you can learn by by reading the book
52:50 okay and then next week at uh 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time Monday um my show is trust and Estates weekly my guest is going to be Hillary Cooper Hillary Cooper has been on the show before um you you know she is the queen of how do you deal with all the stuff that's left behind when somebody passes away so we're going to continue to explore that subject with her and then seven days from today we'll be back for the next edition of business lessons from the military so thanks again for joining me wishing you a wonderful rest of the day and signing
53:27 off as I always do courage at all times my friends uh oh and signing off as I always do uh Marie you are my bell and