
Mike Wisecup
Retired U.S. Navy SEAL commander (Bronze Star with Valor, Purple Heart) and leadership speaker/coach; former VP and athletic director at Colby College.
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Sep 23, 2026
Where Should the Leader Be When the Action is Happening?
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Mike WisecupGUEST
And I think that's what gets that's got me so curious is how do you decide? Like, how do you figure out where you should be? So the military context, I remember being very deliberate during operations on where I was going to be.

Mike WisecupGUEST
And the method kind of like the rubric I used was where do I maintain the best command and control of all the different elements that are happening to include being able to respond to the contingencies that we planned for.

Mike WisecupGUEST
What that meant is if we were doing a raid on a house or a building structure, if I was inside the building or inside the house, I lost perspective of what was happening outside.

Mike WisecupGUEST
I lost the ability to manage contingencies that might've been happening that would require new assets, a quick reaction force, or to be able to communicate our whole situation because I was only seeing a very small piece of it.
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Blaine SmithHOST
Like what's the, what's like the CCIR or like the things that are worth calling the commander in the middle of the night and getting them up out of bed and getting them on the ground.