Ep. 340 Ian Palmer, Leadership Lessons from a U.S. Army Colonel

In this week's episode, Coach Brendan Suhr is joined by Ian Palmer — a retired U.S. Army colonel and leadership advisor for corporations, coaches, and teams.

Palmer spent 26 years in the Army, moving from a 16-soldier tank platoon to command of a 5,000-soldier brigade combat team to chief of staff of an armored corps responsible for 90,000 people. He explains how the Army treats leadership as a continuously evolving laboratory rather than something you either have or don't, and why the skills that get someone promoted are almost never the skills the new job requires.

From there he and Suhr get into what translates directly to a locker room: why leadership is always about people, the three questions every person on a team is silently asking, how to build discipline through clear expectations rather than rules, and why walking past a broken standard quietly creates a new and lower one. Palmer also makes the case for recruiting to character you've defined in advance, developing your assistants into head coaches, and leading from your own personality instead of copying the coach you worked for.

All that and more on Episode 340 of the Coaching U Podcast presented by Noah Basketball.

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