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the presence of leaders and commanders of the Haganah. Suddenly, a currier arrived on a motorcycle with a message from Ben-Gurion, who ordered them to cancel the operation in order not to provoke the British government on the eve of their departure from Palestine (113). From 1947 to 1948, Uzi Sharon improved his “Sharks” with the help of HEMED
... See moreUriel Bachrach • The Power of Knowledge - HEMED
Rather, it substitutes a vision of the manager as a (demanding) coach, a conscience, instead of the manager as boss, decision maker, or overlord.
David H. Maister • Managing The Professional Service Firm
In addition, Kimberly still had the responsibility of maintaining compliant processes and procedures. If she was going to innovate, she had to be able to present options, choices, trade-offs, and opportunities. This required her to combine both her years of expertise and a “beginner’s mind-set.”
John Rossman • The Amazon Way: 14 Leadership Principles Behind the World's Most Disruptive Company
We are all prisoners of our past to some extent. We bring our frame of reference, shaped by our unique combination of experiences, into any new role. But the most valuable leaders are those who can combine the scrappiness of a start‐up leader with the organizational and diplomatic discipline needed in a big company. Those who can scale up or scale
... See moreFrank Slootman • Amp It Up
They warned him—relentlessly—about the “snowball effect,” the process whereby a diver ignores a minor problem or two only to encounter other problems that combine with the earlier ones to doom him. “Always answer the first problem immediately and fully,” they said, “or you’re fucking dead.”
Robert Kurson • Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II
the words of my immediate boss—our task unit commander, Lieutenant Commander Jocko Willink—echoed in my head, words I’d regularly heard during a full year of intensive training and preparation: “Relax. Look around. Make a call.”
Jocko Willink , Leif Babin • Extreme Ownership
Admiral King “listened with utmost enthusiasm,” wrote Captain James Doyle, Turner’s operations officer, when describing the UDT efforts at Flintlock. “Excellent,” King interrupted in the middle of Doyle’s briefing, “that business of the hydrographic survey at the first possible moment is a pet hobby of mine.” For Turner, however, a unit capable of
... See moreBenjamin H. Milligan • By Water Beneath the Walls
TO MOVE FROM COERCION TO COLLABORATION
- Vote first, then discuss.
- Be curious, not compelling.
- Invite dissent rather than drive consensus.
- Give information, not instructions.