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Retired Navy Captain David Marquet, author of “Turn The Ship Around! A True Story of Turning Followers Into Leaders,” explores intent-based leadership. Get your team to stop asking, “Can I…?” And inspire them to start using empowering phrases, such as “I intend to…” Marquet used intent-based leadership to take the U.S.S. Santa Fe, a nuclear-powered submarine, from worst in the fleet to first. Stephen R. Covey, author of “The...

Transcript - THE LEADERSHIP LIST podcast - Stanley...

06.17.2020 | Story by George Maurer

The transcript for Episode Three of THE LEADERSHIP LIST...an AFN360 podcast. In this edition, Retired Army General Stanley McChrystal, co-author of "Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World," explains why conventional tactics weren't working against Al Qaeda in Iraq during 2004 and how his team turned the tide by pushing decision-making down to the frontlines. These lessons then became a five-step plan for success in a...

Transcript - THE LEADERSHIP LIST - Rod Beckstrom -...

06.06.2020 | Story by George Maurer

Rod A. Beckstrom, author of "The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations," explores the challenges and advantages of leaderless organizations. If you cut off a spider’s head, it dies; if you cut off a starfish’s leg it grows a new one, and that leg can grow into an entirely new starfish. Traditional top-down organizations are like spiders, but now starfish organizations are changing the face of business...