Lead Like a Marine: Run Towards a Challenge, Assemble Your Fireteam, and Win Your Next Battle

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Marines Corps is the greatest fighting force on the planet, but it’s so much more than that: it’ s a factory for producing first-rate leaders, problem-solvers, and innovators.

In 2006, John Warren and John Thompson led Marines into combat in the world’ s most dangerous city: Ramadi, Iraq.

But when they got home, employers didn’t understand what they had to offer.

Undeterred, they founded their own specialty mortgage company, growing it from scratch into a national powerhouse over the course of a decade.When the two decorated veterans applied the values and training of the U.S.

Marine Corps to build a thriving business, they defied corporate America’s expectations.