What the Military Teaches You About Organizational Leadership with Tom Connally, President of Connally Consulting and Leadership Coach at National Marine Corps Business Network

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Tom Connally, President of Connally Consulting and Leadership Coach at National Marine Corps Business Network, joins the Airmen Helping Airmen Podcast with Kaleth Wright to discuss how his Marine experience helps him grow and teach successful business leaders.

Key facts

• Tom’s LinkedIn
• Tom’s Instagram
• Tom’s Facebook
• Tom’s Youtube
• Tom’s Book
• Connally Consulting Website
• National Marine Corps Business Network Website
• Tom was raised in a Navy family with two WWII Veterans as parents.
• Tom followed his older brothers to the Naval Academy and into the Marine Corps, where he served for over thirty years.
• Tom started Connally Consulting to help leaders and organizations to improve their performance and success personally, professionally, spiritually, and physically using the lessons he learned in the Marines.

Key takeaways

Raised in a Navy family, Tom learned the importance of hard work. As a result, he developed the philosophy that leading is a 110% effort to commit to a life-long endeavor of study, action, reflection, and refinement

• To succeed in whatever you do, imitate successful persons and emulate the things that they did. Also, find or create a culture of performance in which you feel valued, where you're learning and growing all the time
  
• A leader is someone who continues to improve and grow. So look inside and outside your organization for more experienced people you can learn from. Find a mentor, a peer, and a mentee, as these people will help you constantly grow
  
• Great leaders understand they have to be what their organizations need at a specific time.
  
• Coaching is about helping people to define their objectives and then attain them
  

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Quotes

• “Emulate to accelerate. If you want to improve, find somebody who's done what you want to do and be like that person”
  
• “Sometimes you're a master of something, but you have to apprentice yourself because leadership is learned. I call it an apprentice vocation”
  
• “But the best leaders, the most successful people, understand this role. You have to do what needs to be done. You don't get to choose just to do the easy stuff”
  

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