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INTRODUCTION — The Leadership Kill Chain
Fast is the default, but flow comes through discipline—where awareness and instinct move as one. The military has a term known as the Kill Chain, which spans from Sensor to Shooter. Instinctive leaders have their own 'Kill Chain: Sight to Success.' Like the military version, speed matters—but so does accuracy at each step. Can you see it clearly enough to exploit it?
This is a link to the ‘Principles’ tutorial video - ‘My Leadership - An Introduction.’
Alongside the Principes video, I have included the ‘Activation Narrative’ that is part of this session in the self-guided workbooks. The stories I tell aren’t comfortable, nor are they trauma porn. They are designed to elicit a specific response from the reader, tied to the topic our clients are working on in this session.
All of our programs operate within a metaphor. This is part of the initial activation methodology. My Leadership uses a climbing metaphor, where we will begin at the foot of the wall and end with the summit. Every leader moves through the same sequence that makes the leadership kill chain, but what you've stored at each section is yours alone—built biographically through repetition under pressure.
My Leadership is the first of three programs in My Success, expanding your awareness to see what's coming and counter blind reactions. Five sessions calibrate five precision elements:
Subconscious Goal: Recognize your instinctive pattern when you step up to lead
Subconscious Assessment: Understand the biases that shape your judgment
Subconscious Decision: Recognize the environments that improve decision-making
Subconscious Action: Calibrate your characteristic approach to each situation
Subconscious Reaction: Increase your intentionality around the impact you unintentionally cause under stress
Discomfort is a Feature, not a Bug.
There are no comfortable ways to equip people with an effective leadership kill chain. The resistance you may feel in my writing style, the layout of this blog, the black-and-white videos, and the complexity that is woven throughout it all is a feature, not a bug. Being uncomfortable is normal; putting in effort is the point.
Alongside the principle, I will include the Activation Narrative that is part of that session. Imagine sitting around an open fire on the side of a mountain, sipping coffee as we rest up for the next day. The stories I tell aren’t comfortable, nor are they trauma porn. They are designed to elicit a specific response from the reader, tied to that particular link in the Kill Chain sequence.
In the next post, we'll explore the first link in what we call our instinctive Leadership Kill Chain—setting a Goal.
— Robert (Sherpa) Millar