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- Bold risk takers.

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Leaders take risks.

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If you're a conservative all the time,

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now you gotta be smart,

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I'm not saying you say,
hold my beer and watch this.

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(audience laughs)

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I'm not saying you do something unethical,

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and say, look, I know what the
AFI says, but trust me here.

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No, we need to follow,
comply, follow the rules,

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but you gotta be bold,

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within legal, ethical, and moral lines,

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go for it.

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That's what makes a leader.

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You can't say, we've
always done it this way.

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I'm just laughing at myself.

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There's so many stories.

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I've been in the Air Force for 34 years.

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Now I know, I know, I look young, I know.

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People tell me all the time.

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Thank you very much.

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But I actually came in
when I was 12 years old.

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(audience laughs)

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Did you know that (laughs)?

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'cause I am young.

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No, I came in at 19,
but I've seen so much,

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when people were not bold.

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And then I've seen when
you have a bold leader,

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everyone goes, we're following her.

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We're following him,

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because they're making a change.

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They're not afraid.

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They're willing to take that risk,

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and you create that team
of enabling leaders.

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You know what else I
found out as a leader,

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when I was coaching the biggest team

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in the Air Force, operationally?

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I know this is gonna sound funny.

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Don't laugh at me,

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but the biggest staff I
had was like 35 people.

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I know, I know, it's not
that big in a chaplain corps,

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but 35 people.

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But let me tell you what happened.

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When we made bold changes into
the system, into the program,

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and we weren't afraid to
confront the obstacles,

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everybody became creative.

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My branch chiefs began to speak out.

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I had three branch chiefs.

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My contractors began to say,
hey, sir, what about this?

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Hey, what about that?

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I was like, wow!

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I hadn't thought about this,

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hadn't, because we can't
do it all as leaders.

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That's what I'm trying to say.

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We gotta create the
environment of boldness,

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bold risk takers, enabling
leaders to do this,

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because they see a bigger objective,

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and a ongoing viability,

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and the fitness of the organization.

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You gotta make change, people.

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Wake up today.

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Take the risk that's within
the parameters of safety,

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within the parameters of
ethicalness, and, if that's a word,

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and morale, or a moral, okay?

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Willingness to take great
risk in sponsoring innovation,

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isn't that what General
Polakowski would say?

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Innovation, take the risk, make it happen.

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All right, next slide.

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All right, whew, I know my time
is running, but watch this.

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This one, I know, now I can
spend the next 30 minutes,

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but I'm not, on this one slide.

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Resilient leaders.

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These people remind me of our history,

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and they remind me of what it
takes to go forward, Major.

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It reminds me, okay look at the top.

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You know who that is, anyone?

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Jackie Cochran.

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She was prohibited

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from fighting and flying
for our Air Force.

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Fly, fight, and win.

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No, no, no, Jackie.

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You're a woman.

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You forgot.

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You can't do that.

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Unfortunately, that was
a time in our world,

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in our Air Force, that
a woman could not fly,

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because of her gender.

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She was not allowed to fly.

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But, so what they decided to do

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with Hap Horner and all those leaders,

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they said, we're gonna
create what's called

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the Women Air Service Pilots, the WASP.

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So they created the WASP,
and, get this ladies,

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25,000 ladies tried to sign up.

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25,000.

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Only 1,074 were selected,
General, pleasure,

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and they created what was called the WASP.

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And they flew behind the scenes.

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We didn't see 'em.

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They were ferrying broken planes,

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or planes that needed mechanical
repair but could still fly,

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but not fit for the battle, and so forth.

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But she made a difference.

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She would not quit.

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She was resilient.

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In fact, they said, hey,
Miss Cochran, by the way,

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oh, oh, one thing I gotta mention.

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See that third picture?

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You know why she looks like that?

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That's how she came out
of most of her flights.

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She put on her makeup.

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She was known because she
was a beauty consultant

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and had an empire of beauty products.

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Flying in the planes,

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and she had an empire of
beauty products, by the way.

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See? That's creativity.

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That's resilience.

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But, by the way, they said, Miss Cochran,

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could you test whether or not a woman

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is viable in a shuttle, in
a rocket, to go to space?

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She led the way, first woman to be tested

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to see if you can go
to infinity and beyond.

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But check this out,

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when Miss Cochran died, 1980,

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she's enshrined right across
the street at the museum.

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Not only is she enshrined,
check this out, are you ready?

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She held more records in
speed, altitude, and distance,

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than any woman.

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No, wait, correction, change the tape.

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More records than any pilot
ever, at the time of her death,

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male or female.

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Amazing, right?

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A woman who was told, you can't fly,

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she set more speed records,
more distance records,

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more altitude records,
because you can do it.

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Yes you can, women.

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You can do it.

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See, I thought I would
get the women going, yes!

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(audience laughs)

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They're like, yeah, we already knew that.

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That's old stuff.

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Okay, so are you on this end?

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It will never happen.

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Jackie could've stayed
there, couldn't she?

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She could say, okay, I'm just gonna take,

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I'm just gonna stay in the
makeup industry and that's it.

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No, no, she did 'em both.

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And, or are you in the middle?

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It could happen.

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Or are you moving to the right?

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Right now, are you moving to the right?

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It will happen.

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I will be resilient.

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I am not giving up on life.

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I am not taking my life.

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I'm not gonna commit suicide.

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I'm not gonna just give
up on my relationships.

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I'm gonna change some things.

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I'm not giving up on my team.

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We're gonna change something.

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I wanna fire that person,
but you know what?

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I'm going back this week,

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and I'm gonna be a better leader.

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I'm gonna change, because I'm
gonna apply these principles.

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It will happen.

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