Good.
Flynn didn’t have the “Right Stuff”.
Everyone screws up sometimes. But not everyone quits.
Flynn might be an honorable and qualified man, but he caved too easily.
I’m hoping Bob Harward gets the post.
Here’s what my criteria for this position and a Navy SEAL will have these qualities.
WORK ETHIC
1) Never give up.
2) There are times when the only choices you have are bad ones. You will still need to choose and proceed.
3) The quickest way is the best.
4) Always put out more effort than anyone else.
5) Pull your weight and do your share. Earn what you want.
6) Do not coddle the lazy. Darwin and Murphy will deal with them.
7) There is no such thing as luck. You make your own luck.
8) Own your mistakes, you can never advance if you make excuses or blame others.
9) Everyone screws up. You are no different. Own it and continue the job.
10) Learn loyalty, don’t give it blindly but loyalty and trust go hand in hand.
11) Finish all jobs.
12) You have to be willing to accept loss, so accept it when it happens.
13) You have to do what is needed. You don’t get to pick what you have to do.
14) You do what you have to do to get what you want or need.
15) The important things are always simple.
16) The simple things are always hard.
17) If it’s stupid & it works, it ain’t stupid.
18) Keep it simple.
19) Adapt.
20) Adapt to overcome.
21) It’s better to seek forgiveness than ask permission.
22) There is no such thing as coincidence.
23) Tell the truth about everything, even if it involves a disagreeable, embarrassing or undesired outcome.
24) If you are the leader, trust your subordinates to do their job and do not micromanage them. They know how to get the job done; let them, even though it isn’t the way you would have done it yourself.
25) If a decision is required, then make one. Do not procrastinate a difficult decision.
26) Always strive to win. Another name for “second place” is “first loser”.
27) Fight for what you stand for. If you don’t fight for the things you stand for, then you really don’t stand for them.
CONDUCT
1) Chivalry is not dead, it’s a Warriors’ Code (and only practiced by warriors).
2) Conduct yourself with honor and be honest; honor and honesty go hand in hand, so defend your honor and your dignity.
3) Never leave a man behind.
4) Never sacrifice anyone for yourself, if you do, you lose your honor.
5) Never screw over your buddy or co-worker, another means of losing your honor.
6) Never put a buddy or coworker into an embarrassing situation.
7) Never trust anyone with a history of screwing his buddies over (no matter how nice they seem).
8) Always tell the truth. The truth is hard enough to remember without having to remember the details of some tall tale.
9) Never lie to someone who trusts you; and never trust someone who has ever lied to you.
10) Never ask someone to lie for you, no matter how important it is to you, they will slip up eventually, because people are not hardwired to lie for someone else.
11) Never ask someone else to lie for you, no matter how small the lie. You will permanently lose the respect of the person you are asking to lie for you.
12) If you absolutely have to lie, then, be very specific or you won’t remember it.
13) Family first: you do what you have to for family (no matter what it is, how expensive or how dangerous).
14) Treat everyone the same.
15) Never start trouble and never turn your cheek. You may not have started it, but you will end it.
16) Have a plan.
17) Perfect plans aren’t.
18) Have a back-up plan, because the first plan one won’t work
19) Be courteous to everyone, friendly to no one.
20) Don’t be the asshole in the group and criticize no one.
21) The word coward should be the most reviled word you know.
I disagree. He screwed up, he knew it, and he did the honorable thing by resigning rather than become a lightning rod for the Trump Administration.
We're talking about a cabinet post in an administration, not a Navy Seal team on a mission in enemy territory. Sometimes discretion is the better part of valor.
Excellent
That’s good stuff right there. Thanks.
Did I mention how impressed I am with your rules for conduct and life?