Competent Leaders Cannot Be Created When You’re Already In Crisis Mode

Members of the Headquarters Support Company 3rd Bn, 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne) at Ft. Bragg, North Carolina, participate in a High Altitude/Low Opening jump from a Chilean C-255 aircraft. Making sure you have people ready to step up to the challenge of leadership is important in any organization, not just the Army. Staff Sgt. Cherie A. Thurlby/USAF/Getty Images

This is the fourth article in a five-part series on the “Special Operations Forces Truths.” The SOF Truths are five rules that are utilized as a guide for Special Operations units for strategic planning and vision. However, successful Special Operations soldiers also leverage these rules at an individual level in their own day-to-day activities.

Now, as more highly experienced and combat-tested SOF veterans are entering the business world than ever before, these five simple rules are being leveraged as force multipliers by leaders of cutting-edge industries to grow their people in a deliberate manner, on both a professional and a personal level.