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Leadership from a Marine Combat Vet
Today: Leadership lessons from an old Marine. Marines are great at making leaders for crisis situations. We will go through the most important leadership principles you can start using today to lead yourself, your family, and your teams through the current Covid-19 crisis.
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Marine Corps Leadership Traits
JJ DID TIE BUCKLE
- Justice
- Judgment
- Dependability
- Integrity
- Decisiveness
- Tact
- Initiative
- Endurance
- Bearing
- Unselfishness
- Courage
- Knowledge
- Enthusiasm
From MCRP 6-11B Marine Corps Values: A User’s Guide for Discussion Leaders
Big 3: Decisiveness, Bearing, Tact
Tact
- Definition – “The ability to deal with others without creating hostility”
- Significance – “The quality of consistently treating peers, seniors, and subordinates with respect and courtesy is a sign of maturity. Tact allows commands, guidance, and opinions to be expressed in a constructive and beneficial manner. This deference must be extended under all conditions regardless of true feelings.
- This is how you get respect and people to follow you
- Using the correct commands, in the correct way, at the correct volume, with the correct emotion to get people to do what needs to be done in the time that it needs to be done.
Bearing
- Definition: “Creating a favorable impression in carriage, appearance, and personal conduct at all times.”
- Significance: “The ability to look, act, and speak like a leader whether or not these manifestations indicate one’s true feelings. Some signs of these traits are clear and plain speech, an erect gait, and impeccable personal appearance.”
- Used as a bad think in the Military
- Show only the emotion that is needed, nothing else.
Decisiveness
- Definition: “Ability to make decisions promptly and to announce them in a clear, forceful manner.”
- Significance: “The quality of character which guides a person to accumulate all available facts in a circumstance, weigh the facts, choose and announce an alternative which seems best. It is often better that a decision be made promptly than a potentially better one be made at the expense of more time.”
- Patton: “A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week”
- Everything you do or don’t do is a decision
- Actively make decisions
- Decide to wait and see if that is right
- Make a decision, then articulate the decision and why
- Why will get people moving with you
- Without the why, allegations and rumors will fly even in your family
- The more people involved, the more important this is
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Stay Safe,
Ben