Truman Thursdays - Commanding Officer Joe Clarkson on Leadership
As promised, over the next several Thursdays I'll be sharing interviews with some of the commissioned and enlisted personnel I met on my recent trip to the aircraft carrier, USS Harry S Truman. The basic question I asked everyone was, "What are you looking for in a leader?" First up with his answer to that question is the commanding officer of the Truman, Captain Joe Clarkson. If you're looking for insights into how the top leader of a complex operation approaches his job, listen to what Captain Clarkson has to say.
(By the way, the plane launching from the deck in the opening segment is an E-2 Hawkeye.)
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Executive coach Scott Eblin’s goal is to help you succeed at the next level of leadership. Throughout the week, he’ll offer his take on the leadership lessons in the news and his advice on your most pressing leadership questions. A former government executive, Scott is a graduate of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and is the author of The Next Level: What Insiders Know About Executive Success.
And how do you fire someone who is performing as well as you describe the prima dona when that person works for the federal government, where there is a strict distinction between performance and behavior??????
Jacquelyn Zimmermann Posted Friday, January 29, 2010 11:30 AM