I was recently sent a leadership video adapted from Captain David Marquet’s talk on Greatness, based on his book, Turn the Ship Around! It was excellent.
Here are 8 nuggets I got out of it…
- “Give intent – what do you want to accomplish today?”
- Shifting Psychological ownership to the employees empowers them to find the answer
- “Then I would ask them is it the right thing to do?”
- There are two pillars to give control: competence and organizational clarity. Competence asks, “Is it safe?” and organizational clarity asks, “Is it the right thing to do?”
- “My officers are starting to think like me, and it only took 24 hours.”
- “Move the authority to where the information is. Create the environment for thinking.”
- “Nothing is hard, except you. You will feel wrong because we are programmed to take control and attract followers instead of giving control and creating leaders.”
- “You will achieve greatness because the people around you, their families, schools, organizations, and businesses will achieve greatness.”
Take the 9 minutes and 33 seconds to watch it yourself, and let me know how it inspired you to “Go forth and be great!”
