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Hammering leadership gold into your head. Listen to this over and over.

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  • Dec 10, 2018 LATEST EPISODE
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  • 63 EPISODES


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Red Work / Blue Work by David Marquet

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2018 1:22


Red work = execution. Blue work = strategic or learning

Releasing control by David Marquet

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2018 1:21


Getting your team to see you as a servant leader.

Getting up the leadership ladder via David Marquet

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2018 2:43


Your objective is first to be heard with your boss.

Talking in probabilities by David Marquet

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2018 2:13


Making learning the objective.

Definition of Trust by David Marquet

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2018 2:06


"invite scrutiny"

Clarity of intent by David Marquet

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2018 1:31


How to clearly craft the intent

Creating a bias for action by David Marquet

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2018 1:12


The bias for action, vs. doing it all yourself, which can be so tempting.

"Yeah tell me more" by David Marquet

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2018 1:14


The leader has to set intent clearly, then offer structures to help the team. Then to listen to the team through their brains, not the leader's.

The flaws of traditional command and control organizations by David Marquet

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2018 1:08


Unsafe environments lead to people withholding their brains.

Traditional leadership thinking by David Marquet

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2018 1:05


How he started in the Navy.

Practical ways to move people up the control ladder

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2018 1:07


How to help people do leadership pushups.

Avoid stressful environments by David Marquet

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2018 1:39


if you want your team to perform well. Making environments safe to talk, dissent.

Knowing people's competence by David Marquet

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2018 1:09


The leaders have to know the capabilities of their people who help guide the training and tune the level of control.

Creating a bias towards action by Marquet

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2018 1:42


Stop teams avoiding errors, and lead them towards excellence.

Getting people to think by David Marquet

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2018 1:10


Building a team of locomotives

The truth about empowerment by David Marquet

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2018 0:59


"You haven't done jack" if it's only about posters and speeches.

Abdication of leadership too early

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2018 2:55


Giving too much control too early.

Destroying command and control by David Marquet

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2018 0:54


stopping the know all tell all leader

I intend to, I lean into you by David Marquet

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2018 1:42


Flipping in upside down from leaders leaning into those below, to those below leaning into the leaders.

Staying silent as a leader by David Marquet

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2018 1:18


Staying silent to get people thinking. "What would you do if I wasn't here?"

How confident are you?

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2018 1:39


Avoiding "Why" questions or "Are you sure?"

How to make decision making safe for others, by David Marquet

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2018 1:11


Give people a choice on moving up the ladder.

Which people to focus on by David Marquet

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2018 3:08


Which people are with you, and which aren't.

Let them own the decision by David Marquet

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2018 0:46


Let people own the decision even if you know better.

Leaders need to shut up by David Marquet

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2018 1:46


By being quiet you create the space for your team to innovate and take decisions. Creating thinking minds vs. moving hands.

Eliminating tasking and reporting by David Marquet

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2018 0:39


Take this away and give people back their jobs. If you want to know what's going on, go and see your team, or have them lean into you.

Addicted to telling people what to do by David Marquet

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2018 0:58


Addiction to owning someone else's job, because you know it all, or are too afraid they'll screw up.

I own your job by David Marquet

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2018 1:22


When you own someone else's job, or track their actions.

Empowerment, the misused word by David Marquet

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2018 1:24


Empowerment means nothing. What would it look and sound like in the office? That's empowerment.

Getting people out of the frustration zone by David Marquet

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 9, 2018 3:33


With competence and clarity comes responsibility and ownership. If the leader stops being the Idea Fairy and giving orders.

Let the waiter pick your meal by David Marquet

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 9, 2018 0:36


How to give control

Spotting when people are giving up control by David Marquet

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 9, 2018 0:45


When people what you to tell them what to do. If they can't provide a way forward, explore is it their lack of competence, clarity or motivation?

Give permission for people to give you feedback by David Marquet

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 9, 2018 1:10


You have to have a mechanism for your people to give you feedback on your behavior.

The deal he made with his Executive Officers by David Marquet

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 9, 2018 1:54


The story of one agreement turning into the fully flowing ownership seen on the ship by Stephen Covey.

Keep a journal, 1 thing to review per week by David Marquet

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 9, 2018 0:40


keeping a journal will let you get into the depths of the think that was bothering the most, or think that went well for the week.

Leader must create structure by David Marquet

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 9, 2018 0:49


You can only give away control when people are clear on the intent of the org, there's a structure, and people are competent.

1 minute listening tip by David Marquet

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 9, 2018 0:44


Listen first, don't be the idea fairy. First seek to understand, then to be understood.

Einstein quote from David Marquet discussion

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 9, 2018 0:28


Work on the problem definition first.

Today's leadership paradigm shift.

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 9, 2018 2:37


Vulnerable leaders who don't know everything vs. command and control know all tell all leaders.

People need structure, need boundaries by David Marquet

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 9, 2018 1:46


Reference to project Aristotle by Google.

Marquet on job descriptions

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 9, 2018 1:22


How David sees job descriptions.

The myth of the perfect leader by David Marquet

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 9, 2018 0:52


The classical leader makes it all about themself.

I was forced not to give orders by David Marquet

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 9, 2018 1:04


He goes on to say it started him thinking on how to be a different leader. He didn't come up with the idea, he was forced.

How to talk in meetings by David Marquet

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 9, 2018 0:43


Meetings should be inviting, rather like a dinner party.

How to give up control -skip first part of a meeting by David Marquet

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 9, 2018 0:40


You can do this when you feel the team is ready for it. But keep inviting them up the ownership ladder.

Don't give up control too quickly by David Marquet

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 9, 2018 4:07


Marquet explains his disastrous time on the USS Will Rogers when he created chaos by giving away control to people too quickly.

How to keep ownership with others by David Marquet

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 9, 2018 1:05


Unless you want to be solving their problems for the next 1000 years, this is what you need to do.

Leaders decouple the system from themselves by David Marquet

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 9, 2018 0:29


Leaders don't make the company all about them. If they leave, the company continues to thrive.

Great leaders don't give orders by David Marquet

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 9, 2018 0:18


When great leaders are comfortable not giving orders this is a sign of the state of your organization. High trust, predictable delivery.

Lean back, let your team lean in to you by David Marquet

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 9, 2018 0:48


stop giving orders vs. expecting people to tell you when your orders stink.

How to become a bottleneck

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 9, 2018 0:51


Have everyone come to you for ideas and decisions.

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