Leadership / Struggle

The Struggle Leaders Have

Getting Things Right vs Being Right

Mark McMillion
5 min readMar 6, 2024

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Photo courtesy of Sadat Shami. CC 2.0

I’ve struggled with this as a leader, as a husband, and as a father. Immensely. Part of it comes from an incredibly intense competitive nature. I want to win, damn it!

When you view everything as a competition, then you fall prey to this notion of wanting to be right, full…

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Mark McMillion

Retired Army officer with two tours in Baghdad, married with four kids. Proud West Virginian and West Point grad. Works available on Amazon.