Peak Performance Under Pressure: How to Achieve Extraordinary Results Under Difficult Circumstances
Bill Driscollflew 170 combat missions during the Vietnam War as a Radar Intercept Officer in the F-4 Phantom jet fighter. Over his forty-one-year career in U.S. Naval Aviation, he logged more than 3,300 hours of jet fighter flight time, made 500 aircraft carrier landings, and flew in more than 5,200 dogfights. Driscoll is one of only two Navy Vietnam War Aces with shoot downs of five enemy jet fighters in aerial combat.Driscoll was awarded the Navy's highest medal for valor, the Navy Cross, and was nominated for America's highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor. Among his many other awards are two Silver Stars, the Purple Heart, and ten Air Medals. His combat record makes him one of the most highly decorated living Naval Flight Officers of the past fifty years. He remains the youngest U.S. Navy Ace.After twelve years of active duty, including four years as an instructor at the Navy's elite TOPGUN fighter weapons school, Driscoll transferred to the Navy Reserves. He has a forty-year association with TOPGUN. For the past twenty-three years, Driscoll has served as an air-combat consultant providing the four graduating TOP GUN classes each year with a candid three-hour, real-world Air-Combat presentation. Driscoll also worked twenty-six years in the highly competitive field of commercial real estate for CB Richard Ellis in California's San Diego North County. Applying those lessons of peak pressure performance he had learned as an Ace and TOPGUN instructor, he earned the Number One Salesman award in his office five times. His 500 lease transactions totaled more than $200 million, and commercial land sales totaled approximately 645 acres and $145 million.Since 1995 Driscoll has served as a business consultant for many major companies around the United States. He is in constant demand for his unique motivation and leadership presentations.His remarkable experiences provide him with a matchless perspective on how to perform at a high level of effectiveness under maximum pressure. Driscoll has noted many times that Ace fighter pilots, top-performing senior and mid-level executives, highly effective sales staffs, and outstanding marketing personnel share much in common. All face ever-increasing pressures from rapidly expanding global competition, shifting markets, and an unprecedentedly challenging global economy. As he often notes, everyone in corporate America today is under increasingly intense pressure to accomplish more with less.Driscoll earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Stonehill College. He also has a Masters of Science in System Management from the University of Southern California. More information is available at: willydriscoll.com