Show Notes:
Today’s episode is the second in a 3-part series on leadership, featuring guests Brig Gen Robert “Gwyn” Armfield, USAF (Ret.), former OCF executive director Lt Gen Bruce Fister, USAF (Ret.), and current OCF executive director Col Scott Fisher, USAF (Ret.). The topic that’ll be discussed is failure and how to deal with it as a leader in the high-stakes military profession. As my guest Bruce Fister points out, “We’re all going to fail at one point … But you have to deal with it because otherwise no one is going to learn from it.”
Some of the aspects of failure that Bruce, Gwynn, and Scott touch upon include how leaders can create a culture of trust by “being real” about their failures, the importance of setting up those you lead for success—and the space to fail, how smart leaders understand their strengths and weaknesses and rely on others for help, and what can happen when you act too quickly in decision-making without taking it to prayer.
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Here are a few questions to ponder in your personal time, with a small group, or with a mentor:
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Part 2: Spiritual Formation: A Counter-Cultural Approach to Spiritual Renewal
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“Practice what we profess”: Three leadership principles for the Christian in the military
“Get your emotions to work for you”: Understanding emotional intelligence as a military leader
“Camouflage Christian”: Living for Christ while serving in the military
"Understand your why”: Following Jesus’ example of servant leadership
Establishing “foundations of resilience”: Learning how to bounce back after trauma
"Take the biblical viewpoint”: Reframing parents’ conversations with kids about sex
"Struggling in silence”: Talking through God’s design for sexuality and the single womanStruggling in silence
"Pursue at all costs”: Solutions, healing, & recovery from porn addiction
“Rebuilding your beliefs on a foundation of truth”: Understanding betrayal trauma
“On your terms or God’s terms”: Digging deeper into God’s design for the human mind
“There is hope”: Recovering from pornography addiction
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(S3:E12) Part 3: When your job and your faith are at odds / Lead to serve, serve to lead
(S3:E10) Part 1: Being a leader of character / Lead to serve, serve to lead
(S3:E9) “Pursue God… no matter where you are”: Finding fellowship beneath the sea
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