COLUMBIA, S.C. — John Warren - the multimillionaire businessman who pressured South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster right into a 2018 GOP runoff - has written a brand new ebook, saying he desires to share management classes he has realized from army service and the enterprise world, whereas leaving open a return to politics for himself.

In “Lead Like a Marine,” which works on sale Tuesday, Warren says that he and his co-author and fellow Marine and enterprise companion, John Thompson, goal to point out how the U.S. Marine Corps’ philosophy of “doing everything for a reason” and emphasis on “shared core values” may be utilized to what he sees as institutional failures due to misdirected management.

“I really feel like all of these institutions around us are breaking down because of failure of leadership - political, both parties, business, religious organizations, you name it; things are collapsing, and it’s due to bad leadership,” Warren instructed The Associated Press in a latest interview. “We found that extreme hard work, integrity and honesty, blunt and direct communication, and people really wanting to be part of a team - those are the characteristics that make great leaders. And I just don’t see those in most of our elected officials.”

Warren, 44, served 4 years on energetic obligation as an infantry officer within the Marine Corps. The ebook opens with an account of the dramatic April 2016 “unprecedented, sustained attack” on his unit in Ramadi, Iraq, an expertise Warren mentioned has formed his outlook on what instruments are essential to strategically clear up issues within the enterprise world.

“Fighting in a Marine unit in a counterinsurgency, where we were developing very unique tactics really caused me to form what we call in the book ‘do everything for a reason,’ as the key strategy, as opposed to ‘do everything,’ ” Warren mentioned. “That’s such a freeing and empowering strategy because it really allows you to look objectively about anything that you’re trying to solve. Most people don’t do that.”

After leaving the army, Warren and Thompson launched Lima One Capital, a specialty mortgage agency named after their Marine unit and headquartered in Greenville, South Carolina.

A late entrant into the 2018 governor’s race, Warren leveraged greater than $3 million of his personal cash to fund his marketing campaign, which catapulted him from political anonymity to second-place finisher in a four-way GOP main.

Netting the endorsements of two of the also-rans, Warren narrowly misplaced to McMaster in a contentious runoff that included a last-minute journey from President Donald Trump to stump for McMaster, a longtime ally and early endorser of Trump’s 2016 marketing campaign.

After that loss, Warren turned again to enterprise. In 2019, he offered his stake in Lima One, then - together with Thompson - based GEM Mining, a Greenville-based Bitcoin firm that launched with greater than $200 million in institutional capital.

But Warren has additionally stayed concerned in politics. In 2020, he launched a political motion committee, a car usually used because the springboard for a political run. His South Carolina’s Conservative Future PAC supported a handful of legislative races that yr, in the end claiming victory in 13 out of the 15 races by which it obtained concerned.

“I want to serve. I think we are desperate for good leaders,” Warren instructed The Associated Press, saying that his PAC could be “very active” in 2024 races. “I don’t have any plans right now to run for anything, but I’m always interested in serving.”

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Meg Kinnard may be reached at http://twitter.com/MegKinnardAP

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