How do you believe your experiences in the military have prepared you for the challenges of the "urban battlefield" of business?

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Matt Eversmann · Answer

I absolutely do believe that my experiences in the military helped prepare me to fight on this urban battlefield called business. And first and foremost, I think it's because it is just that. Business is battle. And by that, I mean, we've got to win. Victory is number one. Coming in second is unacceptable. I mean, you think back of all the wars that's ever been fought in the history of the world, you know, the people that come in second, you know, didn't get spoils of war. So shaping people's mindset that we got to win, it's all or nothing is tremendously valuable. And you learn that, I think, or I learned that certainly in the military. Second thing I think directly applicable is this thing called Murphy's Law. And knowing that Murphy rides shotgun with us every day and no plan ever survives the first bullet on the battlefield, getting used to that and thinking on your feet and understanding that it's going to go sideways. Something is not going to go as planned. Makes you comfortable in an uncomfortable environment. And that's an advantage than a lot of people I found out here that weren't in the military don't possess. And third, I think the understanding that we make money with rehearsals. We rehearse everything we're going to do, all of our actions before we leave the wire in combat. We rehearse before we go out the door here to do any presentation, make a pitch, whatever it is we're doing, we want to be excellent. Excellence is what wins. Excellent is top of the heap, tip of the spear, the main effort on the battlefield. So there's a lot of things. If you do some history, you'll see that I think the leaders of the teams that were successful in battle have very similar traits to the leaders and teams that are successful in business.

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"How do you believe your experiences in the military have prepared you for the challenges of the "urban battlefield" of business?"