What separates a culture of compliance from a culture of commitment, and what does it actually take to build the kind of team where people are truly all in? This week, Jon Goehring and Coach Jim Johnson sit down with General Robert Mixon, retired two star division commander, former aide to General Colin Powell, co-founder of Level Five Associates, and author of The Power of Being All In, for one of the most battle tested and practically useful leadership conversations the Lounge has ever had.

General Mixon opens with his origin story, from growing up as the oldest of six kids in Georgia to being recruited to West Point by Army football coaches who showed up in his driveway the night he came home from a game with his ribs taped up, still wearing his gas station uniform. He shares what those early years commanding 178 soldiers on the East Wes ...