First Man In
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Ant Middleton. First Man In
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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
PREFACE
DON’T LET ANYONE DEFINE WHO YOU ARE
MAKE YOUR ENEMY YOUR ENERGY
LEADERS STAND APART FROM CROWDS
MAKE FRIENDS WITH YOUR DEMONS
YOU DON’T NEED TO BE THE LEADER TO LEAD
FAILURE ISN’T MAKING THE MISTAKE, IT’S ALLOWING THE MISTAKE TO WIN
THE WAR IS ALWAYS IN YOUR HEAD
THE POWER OF INTELLIGENT WAITING
HOW TO AVOID A MUTINY
THE ULTIMATE LEADERSHIP LESSON
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ABOUT THE PUBLISHER
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To the only person who can make me or break me with one sentence. This woman pushes me on a daily basis and will not accept anything less than one hundred per cent from me at all times. When I lose my way, she redirects me. When I put a foot out of place, she stamps on it. And when I fail, she is the only person who can lift me back up and make me feel invincible. My wife is the reason I am here today and she is the lady that has made me the man I am.
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When I was a new recruit at Pirbright, those lessons were still an extremely long way off. Three weeks after I’d seen that young lad being posted through a plywood wall, I found myself on the parade ground beside him. We were in formation, waiting for the corporal to arrive for inspection. Next to us, looking confused and out of place, was a new recruit called Neil. He’d joined our troop after falling out of Basic Training, having suffered a broken ankle on week five of his intake. Now he was mostly better, he’d been inserted back into the programme. Neil was a big, leery lad and slightly chubby round the middle, probably out of shape after being out of action for a while.
‘Mate,’ I said to him. ‘Why don’t you jump up here, because the instructor’s going to come any second?’
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