Mike Mobbs

Army veteran & leadership coach. Founder, Rampart Leadership — building leaders of character and cultures that endure. New essays weekly ↓

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A team that believes in a shared story will always beat a team that believes in nothing.

That's what leadership really is — not authority, but belief.

I help leaders build it. New essays weekly ↓

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Shared enemies bind people quickly. Shared values bind them for good.

Every leader learns the difference eventually, usually when the crisis ends and the team discovers nothing else was holding it together.

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What's harder: one dramatic act of sacrifice, or quietly choosing the group over yourself every day for years, with no one watching?

Almost anyone can manage the first. Character is the second.

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Washington's army nearly broke at Valley Forge.

Not from British guns. From cold, hunger, and men putting their own interest first. Believing in the cause was never enough to hold them together.

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Failure only teaches if you go back and look at it.

Most people move on before asking how they got there. What's the failure you learned the most from, and what did you change afterward?

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If you believe there's a limit to the poor character you're capable of, that is a limitation of your imagination, not your character.

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Dale Carnegie taught a generation to act like good people.

Acting like a good person and becoming one are different projects.

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Character is not a fixed trait you either have or lack.

It grows the way any capacity grows: it has to be exercised first. Nobody gets stronger by believing they're strong.

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Waiting for adversity to find you is not character development.

The people who grow fastest go looking for the test. When did you last put yourself somewhere you might fail?

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Ask people to describe their character and they list only virtues.

But character is the whole spectrum — the good, the bad, and the ugly. The traits you won't name still get a vote on your behavior.

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Tired, hungry, short on sleep, under pressure.

That is when your guard fails. Character isn't tested on the days you feel good. It's tested on the days you have nothing left.

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There are two kinds of failure.

The untested fail by accident. The tested fail on purpose. Only the second kind teaches you anything.

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You are always one impossible situation away from your worst self.

The person you become when you're exhausted and cornered is also you. Character isn't who you are on your best day.

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The untested fail by accident. The tested fail on purpose.

Only the second kind teaches you anything.

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Leaders create commitment. Leaders instill belief. Leaders tell stories.

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Remarkable turn of events that now the United States is the world's largest single source of uncertainty

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@CommunityNotes this statement is flat out false

The meeting did occur

A press conference scheduled for after the meeting was canceled

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Breaking.

A meeting between Zelensky and US Special Envoy to Ukraine Keith Kellogg began in Kiev,

But was immediately cancelled at the request of the American side, Ukrainian media reports