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shakachon · 5 years

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ryanmoor · 8 years

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It’s Your Ship

I’m a big fan of books that tell stories which teach lessons as well as being a fan of history, the military, and our great US of A country. All of this wrapped the book It’s Your Ship by Captain Michael Morgan with a nice little bow surrounding a delicious bowl for the soul full of nuggets of wisdom. Through the chapters in the book Michael takes you through the lessons he learned in leadership through his Navy carrier. During his two year stint as captain of the USS Benfold he and the crew he led turned the ship from being one of the worst in the Navy into the best damn ship in the entire fleet. Throughout the chapters, he teaches lessons by telling the stories of how he learned those lessons, though I was never in the Navy, I could very much relate to many of these stories and thus the lessons gleaned from them.

Chapters: Take Command Lead By Example Listen Aggressively Create a Climate of Trust Look for Results, not Salutes Take Calculated Risks Build Up Your People Generate Unity Improve Your Peoples Quality of Life

These chapters pretty much follow the lessons in the book about leadership. Here are the lessons that I took which I would like to share with you.

On Empowerment and Trust - This is an area of which I frankly struggle in, first of all, I really like doing things and I think I’m pretty good at it. Second, someone else’s lack of understand of what is in my head is probably my biggest trigger for anger and …. since I don’t do a particularly good job of telling people what is in my head and I don’t often wish to try to explain it to them I end up wanting to do a lot of things myself. So this is overall the most I valuable lessons I gleaned from the book.

How I applied it? 1. When do I need to be consulted or jump in? “I chose my line in the sand. Whenever the consequences of a decision had the potential to kill or injure someone, waste tax-payers’ money, or damage the ship, I had to be consulted.”

For me at Ryonet I did a few things; 1. On our weekly KPI dashboard I changed metrics that were within 10% from red to yellow and kept everything outside of 10% variance in red. If someone’s KPI was red and not trending yellow or green for longer than 2 weeks, I start getting involved. 2. When there is a material customer disappointment trends/major company losses/measured from Matrix KPI’s. 3. Legal material damage/risk 4. Major values conflicts thats not being addressed. 5. Major customer issues that are not being addressed.

How to avoid disappointment and create leadership accountability? Ask myself these questions and then ask these questions from my leadership team 1. Did I clearly articulate the goal? 2. Did I give enough time to accomplish it? 3. Does the person have the right amount of resources to accomplish? 4. Does the person have the know how or aptitude to accomplish?

When team members bring me ideas learn to ask what can you do about that or what are you going to do about that?

Listen aggressively; my attention is the utmost respect I can pay to someone.

Build Team/Unity ideas. 1. Send cards to spouses and parents in birthdays 2. Look for a family and spouse spokes person 3. Have young team members be admins to senior ones 4. Fun day 1x per month

Improvement; initiate and standardize having After Action Review’s, or AAR

Being your best all of the time. 1. Fake till you make it. 2. When you can’t fake it anymore, remove yourself from the situation.

Daily Journal Review 1. What happened today? 2. What will I do differently tomorrow?

Here is another great summation of It’s Your Ship that I found as well as some of the favorite quotes from the book.

“The timeless challenge in the real world is to help less-talented people transcend their limitations.”

“BET ON THE PEOPLE WHO THINK FOR THEMSELVES.”

“If your bosses see you lifting burdens off their shoulders, and they find out they can trust you, they stay out of your face. And that gives you the freedom you need to operate independently and improve your ship.”

“Leaders need to understand how profoundly they affect people, how their optimism and pessimism are equally infectious, how directly they set the tone and spirit of everyone around them.”

“Innovation and progress are achieved only by those who venture beyond standard operating procedure.”

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