Call Sign Chaos

by Jim Mattis

They recognized that those mistakes were part of my tuition and a necessary bridge to learning how to do things right.

In any organization, it’s all about selecting the right team. The two qualities I was taught to value most in selecting others for promotion or critical roles were initiative and aggressiveness.

The book is structured in three parts: Direct Leadership, Executive Leadership, and Strategic Leadership.

“We don’t get to choose when we die,” he said. “But we do choose how we meet death.”

Strangers don’t fight well together, and it’s a precept with me not to reorganize in combat.

I was conscious of what George Washington wrote to the Congress early in our war for independence: “Men who are familiarized to danger meet it without shrinking; whereas troops unused to service often apprehend danger where no danger is.”