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“I like Bob Proctor’s statement that “a mentor is someone who sees more talent and ability within you than you see in yourself, and helps bring it out of you.”
― Mike Manazir, Learn How to Lead to Win: 33 Powerful Stories and Leadership Lessons

“Inclusion is the secret sauce of high morale.”
― Mike Manazir, Learn How to Lead to Win: 33 Powerful Stories and Leadership Lessons

“In 2008 we had completed two deployments almost back to back. We came back in the spring of 2008 and set up for six months of maintenance that was to end on December 14, 2008. The date is important. That date was my vision.”
― Mike Manazir, Learn How to Lead to Win: 33 Powerful Stories and Leadership Lessons

“believe it, you can achieve it. My Academy experience created”
― Mike Manazir, Learn How to Lead to Win: 33 Powerful Stories and Leadership Lessons

“The Towers Fall September 11, 2001, is a day that Americans will never forget. My September 11 moment occurred on September 12 because the Carl Vinson was across the International Dateline and was steaming just south of the southern tip of India conducting flight operations.”
― Mike Manazir, Learn How to Lead to Win: 33 Powerful Stories and Leadership Lessons

“I learned an important leadership lesson from this experience. More often than not, the difference between success and failure is found in your belief and daily choice to do what needs to be done to achieve your goal.”
― Mike Manazir, Learn How to Lead to Win: 33 Powerful Stories and Leadership Lessons

“Dad was not quick with praise. He seemed to find fault with whatever I did, regardless of my effort. For one reason or another, I never seemed to be quite good enough to meet his standard. Later I would see this as a gift. I would always want to do better. Always!”
― Mike Manazir, Learn How to Lead to Win: 33 Powerful Stories and Leadership Lessons

“As I walked by, he said, “Night flights always suck when it’s really dark.” I’ll never forget that brief exchange. It was the last one we would ever have.”
― Mike Manazir, Learn How to Lead to Win: 33 Powerful Stories and Leadership Lessons

“Lieutenant Commander Mike Manazir, United States Navy, canceled the Blue Angels participation in the 1994 Seattle Sea Fair.”
― Mike Manazir, Learn How to Lead to Win: 33 Powerful Stories and Leadership Lessons

“Typhoon Cobra cost Admiral Halsey three destroyers and 790 sailors.”
― Mike Manazir, Learn How to Lead to Win: 33 Powerful Stories and Leadership Lessons

“Making the right decision doesn’t mean you get the desired outcome. Not getting your desired outcome doesn’t mean you made the wrong decision. All decisions involve risk.”
― Mike Manazir, Learn How to Lead to Win: 33 Powerful Stories and Leadership Lessons

“That’s when you need tribal knowledge. Your best weapon for dealing with red tape is your working relationships.”
― Mike Manazir, Learn How to Lead to Win: 33 Powerful Stories and Leadership Lessons

“A ship is not welded steel, fuel, and gunpowder. It is the people who make a ship a ship. People are the most important asset to your ship, company, or organization.”
― Mike Manazir, Learn How to Lead to Win: 33 Powerful Stories and Leadership Lessons

“It bears noting that the ability to compartmentalize is a necessary skill for a naval aviator as there is real danger if you get distracted operating in that high-octane, high-risk environment.”
― Mike Manazir, Learn How to Lead to Win: 33 Powerful Stories and Leadership Lessons

“Robert Smalls Junior High School”
― Mike Manazir, Learn How to Lead to Win: 33 Powerful Stories and Leadership Lessons

“During workups, many a spouse, including Kelly, finally says, “I wish you would just go on deployment. I can then get used to you being gone.”
― Mike Manazir, Learn How to Lead to Win: 33 Powerful Stories and Leadership Lessons

“So, nuclear power was just a different way to boil water.”
― Mike Manazir, Learn How to Lead to Win: 33 Powerful Stories and Leadership Lessons

“The hours were long. I brought a brown bag lunch and ate at my desk.”
― Mike Manazir, Learn How to Lead to Win: 33 Powerful Stories and Leadership Lessons

“All of the actors who are wearing the dark aviator shades in the movie”
― Mike Manazir, Learn How to Lead to Win: 33 Powerful Stories and Leadership Lessons

“Frosty’s message to me was clear: “Take care of your crew and your crew will take care of you.” I never forgot that.”
― Mike Manazir, Learn How to Lead to Win: 33 Powerful Stories and Leadership Lessons

“That stuck with me through the rest of my career. I never would have imagined that such a powerful impact would come from deciding to know the names of the people who work for me.”
― Mike Manazir, Learn How to Lead to Win: 33 Powerful Stories and Leadership Lessons

“Bottom line: If you aspire to be an exceptional leader, you must find a work you love to do, for a cause you care about, with people you enjoy.”
― Mike Manazir, Learn How to Lead to Win: 33 Powerful Stories and Leadership Lessons

“(There wasn’t access to email aboard aircraft carriers until the mid-1990s.)”
― Mike Manazir, Learn How to Lead to Win: 33 Powerful Stories and Leadership Lessons

“immigrants seeking to cross our borders seeking freedom and opportunity?”
― Mike Manazir, Learn How to Lead to Win: 33 Powerful Stories and Leadership Lessons

“in. Some curious eyes were on me and you can imagine the crew’s reaction. That’s the way I wanted it. I was sending a message. This guy is different. I was the brand new Executive Officer of this nuclear-powered warship.”
― Mike Manazir, Learn How to Lead to Win: 33 Powerful Stories and Leadership Lessons

“The core of my leadership style is to connect with the people I lead. Through inclusion and genuine care, you can add value to relationships that goes beyond your position. Identify the best qualities of your team members and empower them to lean into their strengths to do their jobs.”
― Mike Manazir, Learn How to Lead to Win: 33 Powerful Stories and Leadership Lessons

“What are your emotional drivers? What motivates you? What makes you do what you do? Why do you overreact to some impulses and not others? What are you attempting to satisfy that is embedded deeply within you?”
― Mike Manazir, Learn How to Lead to Win: 33 Powerful Stories and Leadership Lessons

“Our first time together was in the Pentagon where we fought over the viability of aircraft carriers in a future war. We literally sat shoulder to shoulder in front of the Secretary of Defense staff arguing vehemently, for and against!”
― Mike Manazir, Learn How to Lead to Win: 33 Powerful Stories and Leadership Lessons

“The Three As of Inclusion: Awareness, Authenticity, and Accountability” by Ellen Bailey and colleagues. They highlight those three keys to building effective inclusion.”
― Mike Manazir, Learn How to Lead to Win: 33 Powerful Stories and Leadership Lessons

“Maya Angelou made a profound statement, “People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Mike Manazir, Learn How to Lead to Win: 33 Powerful Stories and Leadership Lessons