can you expand on how to appropriately effectively and tactfully lead up the chain of command in a profession that’s considered to be very paramilitary my line of work sometimes works against us limiting limiting ideas and ways of doing things yeah and they’re talking about the tradition in their line of work uh okay so what do you do you got a organization you’re working in and you’ve how do you lead up the chain of command well even in a para military organization which you know infers that this is a very hierarchical structure and it’s chain of command driven and how do you possibly get your boss to do what you want them to do well it’s actually fairly simple fairly simple not easy but simple it is it is hard to do it does take a lot more it does take a lot of tack takes a lot of patience so number one you got to build trust you got to build trust with your the people that are above you in the chain of command you got to build a relationship you got to be proactive you got to stay ahead you know when i joined the military i one you know one day just told my dad hey by the way i joined i enlisted in the navy i’ll be i’ll be gone in three weeks or whatever my dad just looked at me and shook his head and he says you’re gonna hate the military because you hate authority you don’t listen to anybody and i was kind of a young stupid kid and i’m like whatever i’m going in the seal teams it’s a team we don’t have to listen to anybody of course i was completely wrong and you do listen to people and you do have a chain of command but he was right in the fact that i didn’t like to listen to people and i didn’t like authority so how did i get ahead of that it was pretty easy what i did to get ahead of that was i got ahead of it and that’s what you need to do here you have to start that start that attitude of where you’re doing what needs to be done before you get told to do it so you start to appear to have more knowledge and good foresight of what’s going to happen now you got to be careful that you’re not showing up the boss you can’t be thwanting in their face and i already did that you know because i’m so much better than you that’s not the goal here the goal is to build confidence not to build animosity you don’t want to build animosity you want to build trust you want to build confidence you want to make that person start to realize how good you are again be careful not to throw it in their face now the tradition piece and and sometimes people do cling on to the traditions and they use the traditions to shut down evolution and that’s bad because what they’re really doing is they’re protecting their world they’re protecting their existence and so that’s a that’s a big wall that’s a big hard wall to get through now most people do have traditions and traditions what are traditions built on do we build traditions are there traditions of failure and we’re proud of that right are there traditions of losing or no no the traditions are proud traditions they’re traditions of winning their traditions of excellence and in some way traditions of excellence and traditions of winning and traditions of domination have to be tied in some way to evolving and to adapting and to getting better because that’s how we win that’s how we dominate so you have to find that hole in the tradition that part of the tradition that implies that what we do in our tradition is we get better yeah that’s all it is you just gotta find that thing that says we get better we win and you take that and you carry that that lead that little crack in the armor of tradition and you turn that into you know yeah we have a proud tradition because we’re the best and if you’re going to be the best does the best stagnate no the best evolves and again you got to be careful you can’t throw this in their face you got to say hey you know what our tradition is that we’re the best we make things happen and we get things done and we always do it better than everyone else so you know what here’s one way we could do it better yeah if we did this you got to look for those little cracks in the tradition to bring forward change now again the most important this thing though is you got to continue to build that relationship with your superiors you’re constantly trying to build that i’ve said this before and i’ll say it again no matter who i ever worked for i had the same relationship with the crazy boss with the knucklehead boss with the loser with a great guy had the same relationship all the time and that was they trusted me didn’t matter who i worked for so you gotta build that relationship of trust you’ve also got to be careful that as you’re trying to be proactive and as you’re trying to get things done that you’re not looking to do it for your own ego to get credit because that disturbs the people at the top and it makes them say oh he’s just trying to shine he’s just trying to look good screw him throw his ideas out that’s what you got to watch out for so that’s your ego don’t make your ego fight their ego because they’ve got an ego too you want to let your ego go build that relationship make the change slow it’s going to be slow steady and it’s going to take persistence in the long war don’t you got to have patience tradition doesn’t break down overnight tradition takes time to morph so you got to be ready for that long war and don’t get frustrated you’re part of a winning team you’re part of a team that has a proud tradition you just got to add to that tradition and that’s going to take time that’s how you do it
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