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SPOS #675 – Nick Hays On Leading Like A Navy SEAL

Welcome to episode #675 of Six Pixels of Separation.

Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation – Episode #675 – Host: Mitch Joel. When it comes to performance in business today, you want to take advice from those who truly understand performance when they stakes are high and intense. Well, it doesn’t get better than lessons from to the Navy SEALs. Nick Hays served his country proudly as a Navy SEAL for 10 years, where he was awarded the Bronze Star. After the Navy, he worked as a contractor in the Middle East while attending business school at the University of San Diego. After graduating from Harvard Business School Executive Education, Nick became passionate about helping organizations and teams overcome the problems associated with the need for constant innovation. His focus is on providing teams and leaders with the structure necessary to create cultures that are able to thrive at the highest level. His principles have been put to the test with professional and college sports teams, corporations, young presidents organization, school districts, and non profits. He just published the book, Elite – High Performance Lessons and Habits from a Former Navy SEAL. So, how do you develop effective strategies to motivate, apart and overcome? Enjoy the conversation…

Running time: 52:03.
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Mitch Joel

Mitch Joel lives at the intersection of technology, business transformation and consumer culture. He is the Executive Director of Next Era Institute, a strategic intelligence platform helping leaders understand the forces reshaping business, technology, culture and society. The Institute identifies which shifts matter, explores their wider significance and translates them into strategic direction and momentum. Mitch is also a globally recognized keynote speaker. He has delivered thousands of presentations across both B2B and B2C industries to organizations including Google, Walmart, LEGO, Shopify, Microsoft, Procter & Gamble and Unilever. Strategy Magazine has called him “one of North America’s leading visionaries.” Mitch built his career by working directly inside the waves of change that reshaped modern business. He founded and built a digital marketing agency that worked with some of the world’s largest brands and was later acquired by WPP, where he served as President of a firm operating in 25 countries with almost 3,000 employees. Mitch is the bestselling author of Six Pixels of Separation and CTRL ALT Delete, and the host of Thinking With Mitch Joel, one of the longest-running business podcasts in the world. His writing and commentary appear in outlets including Harvard Business Review, Fast Company and Inc. Magazine. He is a member of Dr. Marshall Goldsmith’s 100 Coaches and was named to the Thinkers50 Radar. Mitch also hosts Groove – The No Treble Podcast, documenting the oral history of electric bass players. Mitch is also Co-Founder of ThinkersOne, a platform that enables companies to bring personalized thought leadership from world-class experts into meetings, events and off-sites in focused 15-minute bursts.