Ep106: Strategy and Execution
Every time I see someone self-sabotaging I understand, having had that experience makes me a bit more empathetic towards people who are doing it and I and I call them on it really quickly.
The benefit of situational awareness is it doesn't care how fast you're going in and you know, I see ample bad decisions made at a slow speed, let alone bad decisions at high speed. One of the things we learn is good or bad decisions is irrelevant, the decision itself is what's important.
1:28 I was exceedingly lucky to have that sense of purpose or an incredibly young age.
5:09 I think that the biggest handbrake to people living their best lives is themselves
7:35 What I subconsciously decided to do was sabotage my career instead
13:10 What I think is important is the leader must work in the business to understand what it's like working as an employee in the business
18:33 Without a decision, the environment stays vague and stays gray, you need to move into the black or white end of that spectrum.
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FIGHTER PILOT • ENTREPRENEUR - LEADER • CEO • AUTHOR - PERFORMANCE COACH
Boo is an established entrepreneur, business owner and today, an executive leadership and performance coach. At the age of 19 Boo was recruited into the Royal Australian Air Force as a pilot and completed over 11 years as an elite fighter pilot, one of only 400 trained over a 40 year period. The product of a $15 million dollar training program, Boo reached the pinnacle of his career as a Squadron Leader, before his medical discharge for a chronic auto immune disorder known as Ankylosing Spondylitis.
At 30 years of age Boo made a life changing decision, boarding a commercial flight to Kabul Afghanistan, where he founded CTG Global, a Humanitarian business delivering projects on behalf of United Nations agencies. Over a period of three years Boo cut his business teeth in one of the worlds most demanding, challenging and dangerous environments on the planet, successfully growing the business to over 1,600 employees until its sale four years later.
Today CTG is a multi-million-dollar company with operations spanning the globe.
Boo subsequently transitioned into property development and hospitality, his company built the world’s tallest prefabricated modular hotel in the Australian city of Perth, completing a two year project in only 11 months. The project set a record for the construction of 17 stories, completing the structure in only 11 weeks.
Boo also heads up the Australian arm of an organisation called “Afterburner” a team of men and women who had served as fighter pilots, the custodians of “The Fighter Pilot Way”, also called Flawless Execution. Upon participating in his first Afterburner event Boo had an
epiphany, the skills he learned, developed and applied as a fighter pilot were the fundamental skills that lead to his business success.
It’s through this journey Boo developed a passion for human performance. He’s identified what it is about our innate humanness that prevents us from living the life we dream about and the secrets to unlocking the power of the people around us to assist us with achieving our goals.
