Gary Morton is a distinguished author, keynote speaker and best selling author. His new book "Commanding Excellence: Inspiring Purpose, Passion, and Ingenuity through Leadership that Matters." narrates his experiences working with high performance teams.
As a distinguished graduate of West Point, Morton learned firsthand how to deliver exceptional results. Then as a platoon leader and tank commander in Army Task Force 4-68 and later, as a young vice president at the medical device manufacturer Stryker, he trained under two legendary leaders who, despite their different styles, followed nearly the same steps to achieve results which most considered unattainable.
In today’s episode Gary is going to teach you how to create a high performance culture in your organization by leveraging time tested and battle hardened principles.
You’ll also learn the following.
Establishing absolute clarity of purpose
Empowering an obsession to achieve a goal
How to unleash creativity, focused on reaching the peak
Transforming the worst performing unit in the U.S. army
The importance of having a clear and specific purpose
Outside-in thinking
Strategies for cracking well-guarded markets
How being different can be your competitive advantage
Gary's Commanding Excellence book
Resources mentioned in this episode:
Gary's website - www.igarymorton.com
Gary's book: "Commanding Excellence: Inspiring Purpose, Passion, and Ingenuity through Leadership that Matters"
Stryker.com
ODESHI 011 - How A Former Airline Pilot Quit The Cockpit To Start East Africa's First Online Payments Company with Eran Feinstein
ODESHI 010 - How A Former Engineer is Leading The Entrepreneurial Revolution in Egypt with Mazen Helmy
ODESHI 009 - How A Former Investment Banker Created A Fast Growing Cosmetics Company with Christian Ngan
ODESHI 008 - How To Start A Fast Growing Recycling Business with Bilikiss Adebiyi Abiola
ODESHI 007 - How To Build Successful Software Businesses in Africa with Churchill Mambe Nanje
ODESHI 006 - How to Start a Successful Ecommerce Company in Africa with Raphael Afaedor
ODESHI 004 - Tackling the 90% graduate unemployment problem via internships with Adekunbi Adeoye
ODESHI 003 - What I Learned From 7 Years of Failure with Victor Asemota
ODESHI 002 - Chasing The Dream with Oo Nwoye
ODESHI 001-The Sweet Smell of Success with Faith Emenike
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
Positive Thinking Mind
In the Great Khan’s Tent
Visualize Meditations
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
The Mel Robbins Podcast