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I [Applause] [Music] think the true measure leadership is can you motivate people to do something that they otherwise would not do and I think you do that by leading from the front by not asking people to do something that you're not willing and able to do yourself an out in fact you go and do yourself so in Team Rubicon that means all of our leaders all of our executives they deployed to the field a couple times a year at the end of the shovel um getting dirty just like every other member of Team Rubicon and as an expectation that we put on our employees um so that's that's one of the ways I think the most important way is demonstrating that you're willing and able to do the work that you're asking these other people to do i want to share one story on this though it i think is really interesting as i think back to my time in the military and the story of about the military going into Fallujah in april two thousand four and that's when general mattis was was commanding the operation and as legend goes [Music] the operation was about to kick off general mattis told the Marines that you've been recruited even trained you've been equipped and now you're deployed here to go assault this objective you have your orders you have the leaders you know your chain of command now i'm going to go fight alongside with you and you know that's whether or not is true that is what's lived on and wrinkle or is his general mattis going and fighting alongside these fellow marines and i think that's really really important lesson because that has motivated generations of marines since then because he is a leader who was willing to go into the trenches and do everything that he was asking of his Marines you