Quotes for the Day from Leadership Lessons of the U.S. Navy SEALS – teamwork; planning!
The business world has increasingly become a world of individuals. Corporate teams that once banded together to push forward are now like mercenary gangs… Corporate culture has often become little more than a sea of managerial nomads, loyal to no one and motivated overwhelmingly by salary, convenience, and the size of the corporate gym…
This has been a disaster for managers and leaders who want to create values and get results. It’s difficult to lead workers who have been abandoned to senior management. It’s tough to make unpopular choices when senior management won’t back you up. It’s hard to stay on course when subordinates can go around you.
Enough… It’s time to run your organization like a team again, and in a manner that is principally designed to produce results.
Do you think you are spending too much time on planning? Spend some more… Success in the boardroom or on the battlefield does not require everything to go perfectly. It requires you to be ready when things go wrong.
Set specific goals and establish identifiable paths to reach them… Time after time, organizations fail to do this.
Jeff Cannon and Lieutenant Commander Jon Cannon,
Leadership Lessons of the U.S. Navy SEALS:
Battle-Tested Strategies for Creating Successful Organizations and Inspiring Extraordinary Results
