so you just talked about growth what have you seen from a leadership
perspective you've doubled inside in size and I know I said to you the other
day has it hey Pete it's gonna get to a point where you're not gonna be able to
really you know when you got twenty people we got eight people clearly you
you I mean personal relationships even families are eight people right exactly
when you got 25 people well now we're talking cousins and uncles and aunts
maybe you don't know all of them that well and there's probably that one weird
you know couple you've recruited all you can yeah yeah like you're there and now
when you get to 50 people well there's people that you know you you're just
you're just not sure and and you don't seem everyday cuz you're busy they're
busy they're working you're working so you start to you start to rely on you
have to rely more on your leadership team to carry the message through the
company how's that been for you honestly I'll tell you and I don't want this to
sound like um you know oh this is this is the the only thing you should go by
but dude we did it when we like when I pushed extreme ownership I had a stack
of books and all my leadership and anybody else interested I didn't just
hold it to the leadership about anyone interested in being part of this company
long term I want you to read this book I'd recommend you read this book and I
had people say well I don't read never that cool I'll pay for I'll pay free
download on your phone I'll give you cash download it and you know and it's
like well I don't have time oh well put the headphones on while you're sewing
you know download it you know and I got I got you so that changed a lot a change
it changed me a lot and we've talked about this in the past
but the biggest thing is how important for me decentralized command was the
decentralized command and decentralized command and the biggest part of that was
I was telling you this the other day like 7100 what do I mean well you've got
to allow people and empower people and your leaders to make decisions right and
if you can get him to a 70% decision which I
learned at the muster also you know and I took if you can get him there
man that's a that's a great thing it's a great example we're sitting here in this
Pro Shop at the immersion camp to get everything here it took it took five or
six trucks I'm talking a 26 foot u-haul an 18 foot trailer another 24 foot
trailer and it took a team of 20 people to get everything here and I took my
wife Amanda to the to the muster in DC and my father-in-law Joe and Brian our
business partner came and his wife Megan and in in we went through it and when
you discussed this does it always have to be a hundred percent like I feel like
I'm gonna make 100 percent decision maybe that's a little bit of ego talking
you know but I feel like my decision is always gonna be a hundred percent right
and I thought that it was too dangerous to allow anything less so what I used to
do is I used to flank people to buy into my idea mm-hmm you know what I mean like
a flank up to buy into my idea until they until they could see it but I had
to get them to see it to buy in and now it's it's different and it's like
setting up this pro shop I know we were it was early in the morning and
everybody's like man your team's your team's going early right and I was like
yeah they were I've got five getting everything set up and I was like but I'm
not there right now I'm hanging back there's a few things I got to do here to
prep and Amanda's handling it my wife is handling it and I'm like it's the 70
hundred and you're like what do you mean I'm like you know the 70 percent hundred
you're like yeah she she called me two hours later we're good to go
yeah I was like I don't think I could have gotten that done in two hours now
my hundred percent I don't think I would have gotten it done in two hours that
maybe would have been another 70 percent maybe it would receive five maybe it
would have been maybe about an 80 maybe it'll been an 82 the bottom line
any of that discussion argument did you know planning would have just wasted
valuable time on both ends yep and but we did do that we did because I it was
the night before I was like but can you see logistical e that coming
into this camp in the woods you can't get four trucks in I'm like you got to
be able to see that you need to if this needs to happen methodically uh-huh you
know so as this one's unloading and leaving the next ones coming in so
you're saying you did waste time discussing I did I did and then you let
it go and then I let them go yep I said I think you've got a good plan I
think that's gonna work let me know what you need and I got behind supporting the
plan that's the way that's yeah so there's a there's a great example of
decentralized grant and so that's not what you've had to do with everything
and because you can't manage it all because this is you know we work with
that s L'Enfant we work with all different companies but obviously we
work with startup companies and we see this kind of growth and these are the
kind of things that trip them up they get the guy who's a visionary like
you're the big visionary and then you start saying well I can you know I
started this thing when I started this thing I was making every decision and
now all of a sudden you look up and if you were trying to make every single
decision that was going on the factory it would be a total disaster
Oh a thousand percent