Leadership Lessons

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Brandon Young Brandon Young

The Unknown Distance March

There’s a reason why the Rangers, the Green Berets, and many other Special Operations Units use unknown distance ruck marches to assess candidates during selection and build grit and resolve during training. The ruck is often called “the ultimate equalizer”. It can make a 250lbs linebacker fall by the wayside while a 140lbs teenager drives on. The ruck does not discriminate and it does not relent. 

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Brandon Young Brandon Young

Beer:30

The trust we built in these moments allowed us to speak as one voice through the good times, the bad times and the tough decisions. Additionally, we built lifelong friendships that last to this day. 

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Blayne Smith Blayne Smith

7 Healthy Responses to "Hitting the Wall"

Here we are still. COVID is still a thing, social unrest hasn’t gone away, school is back in session, summer is over, and there seems to be no end in sight. Across client engagements, in personal relationships, and even checking out at the grocery store, it feels like that weight is still upon us all. It feels like we are hitting the wall(s).

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Brandon Young Brandon Young

Living Our Moment

This moment we live in is unprecedented, and yet, each moment we live always has been. Crises have a way of magnifying the fact that the way we live today matters, for each of us and for each other. 

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