Mental Toughness In Business: A Navy SEAL's Perspective

What the C-Suite Can Learn From Elite Military Training

What % of a top executive job is mental strength under incredible duress? How much is it like Navy SEALs?

The podcast highlight of my morning today: "In Navy SEAL training, we stretch people beyond their limits, and then we make them comfortable again. Then we stretch them beyond their limits again, then we make them comfortable again. The lesson sounds like "just keep stretching your limits, and they get broader and broader," but it misses the larger point. You get stretched so many times, and you get made so uncomfortable that you GET USED TO BEING UNCOMFORTABLE, so when you're highly uncomfortable, you can still be logical, communicate well, and be focused on the mission at hand... [That's what makes the team, teammates, self successful] "
~ Mike Hayes, former commanding officer of SEAL Team 2 and current SVP and COO of VMware, on Revenue Builders Podcast with John McMahon and John Kaplan

I've seen that the ability to stay calm and focused, have a strong plan, and share a vision that inspires people when things are NOT GOOD is one of the most important C-Suite skills. Who knew THAT was what we were training for after all these years of trying to learn the function of business, marketing, technology etc.