Your playbook wins, until the defense shifts. Then those “always” rules snap under pressure.

In EP 143, Chris Hunsicker drops the Two-Column Technique, a Stoic leadership tool forged at Plato’s Academy, that trains you to bend without breaking. Because leaders don’t fail from weakness. They fail from rigidity. Flexibility isn’t fluff. It’s how elite operators pivot under pressure, keep velocity, and still put up gross when the market throws curveballs.

Chris Hunsicker, executive coach and host of The Dealership War Room, equips leaders to execute with resilience, decisiveness, and adaptability. If you want to survive turbulence and still win the scoreboard, this episode is your tactical edge.

Deploy these takeaways:

• The Two-Column Technique: Stress-test your values by writing the exceptions.
• Drop “Always/Never” Rules: Adapt context by context without lowering standards.
• Cognitive Flexibility = Survival: Pivot, retrain, reassign—don’t explode.
• Rigidity snaps. Flexibility bends. That’s how you keep momentum.

🔥 Insight to Action: Grab a sheet of paper. Write down one rigid rule. Then list the exceptions. Find the smarter, flexible way to lead, and apply it today on the sales floor.

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Recommended Next Steps for New Listeners

1. Pick your first battle. Scroll through past episodes and start with one that calls you out.
2. Make it your morning fire ritual. Seven minutes before the chaos begins — listen, learn, lead.
3. Bring your managers in. Share an episode and challenge them to take one daily action.
4. Track your wins. Stack 30 days of execution and see how fast the culture shifts.

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If this episode sparked something for you, share it with another leader today. Copy the link, drop it in a text, and tell them:

“You need to hear this — it’s only 7 minutes, and it will make you better today.”

Remember:

You don’t need a better market.

You don’t need better leads.

You don’t even need better people.

You need to become a better leader.

Let’s go create some leadership fire.