Leadership Nudge – Practice Deliberate Action One of the most important things we did on SANTA FE while implementing Intent-Based-Leadership was to inject thinking in everything we did. In particular, between the impulse to do something and act of doing it, we would pause and vocalize what we were doing. If we were going to...
Leadership Nudge – KNOW ALL, TELL NOT I am going to give you this two by two matrix that describes different models of leadership. Now most leadership lives up in the KNOW ALL, TELL ALL world. The leader knows all the answers so he or she gives all the orders, and since they are the...
Back on the USS SANTA FE, we had to be good listeners. Navy submarines do not have windows, so to know what was around us we had people trained to listen to the sounds in the ocean. Their ability to concentrate on what they heard made the difference between success and failure for us. Hearing...
We are wired to take control and create followers. Taking control and creating followers has been very successful in the business world. In the military it has long been the only way to lead. What I experienced when I decided to give control and create leaders was tremendously more powerful. The hardest step was retraining...