Patrick Houlahan
NEVER FORGET
By Patrick Houlahan |
Time, Money, and Hardwork There is a picture I show at the end of my “TOPGUN Lessons Learned” Keynote https://youtu.be/laLG5MX55V4. ...
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What TOPGUN Taught Me (article 6): DEBRIEF
By Patrick Houlahan |
DEBRIEF Everything was and is important at TOPGUN. How you prepared for a flight, how you delivered the brief, what ...
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What TOPGUN Taught Me (article 5): Teamwork
By Patrick Houlahan |
Always has my back I’m going to be completely honest. When I started writing “What TOPGUN Taught Me,” I had ...
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What TOPGUN Taught Me (article 4): Tough Love
By Patrick Houlahan |
If You Don't Perform, You're Gone Have you ever been doing some you love with all of your heart and ...
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What TOPGUN Taught Me (article 3): Humility and Honesty
By Patrick Houlahan |
Dedicated To Teaching As a student at TOPGUN, I had lots of questions. I knew that we were at the ...
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What TOPGUN Taught Me (article 2): Dedication
By Patrick Houlahan |
TGIF It’s Friday night just past 9:00 pm and the nine members of my class are wrapping up our day. ...
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What TOPGUN Taught Me (article 1): Purpose of TOPGUN
By Patrick Houlahan |
TOPGUN's Mission Statements “Gentlemen, you are the top 1% of all Naval aviators, the elite, best of the best….We’ll make ...
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What Can Leaders Do When The World Is Upside Down?
By Patrick Houlahan |
I’m going to put it bluntly: everything is a mess. In the last two weeks, 10 million people applied for ...
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Saving Private Ryan: Leadership Lessons for the Crisis and the Future
By Patrick Houlahan |
Crisis Leadership Like many of you, I'm catching up on my Netflix shows and re-watching classic movies. One of my ...
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“Lead, follow, or get out of the way.” Leadership during a crisis.
By Patrick Houlahan |
While it’s debated on who said "Lead, follow, or get out of the way," it’s exactly what’s required at this ...
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