Thoroughly enjoyable read, excellent advice on manners and management, simple tips that don’t cost you anything but can make a world of difference to the person on the receiving end.
Enjoyed this one very much (thanks for the shout out and link btw) especially your elegant segue from ships to leadership - always a generous metaphor. Some very sound and preceptive advice around the need to act rather than observe and moan. Even writing can fall into the category of inaction if it is not followed or preceded by action. Great piece - thank you for it.
Such a well-expressed essay, Captain. I feel like I'm on that boat with you. In management, I'd give meaningful assignments and pay extra attention to unruffling the passage of fresh new starters - to show the purpose of aiming high in the long years of work ahead. Oh, and developing a finely-tuned bullshit detector.
Refreshing to read wisdom based on personal achievement as opposed to the ideology-driven public "servants" & egregious politicians, whose advice is as worthless as it is self serving.
Captain Yankee Jack's commonsense always confirms my long held belief that teenage kids should have experience in small boats as a vital part of their education.
I tend to think that mediocrity is the default, certainly among the political class, and all the way down. Management probably don't like to hire someone who might be smarter than they are, so it just perpetuates the declining level critical thinking. For the first time in a long time, I have a great manager, my former one was real c, so much so I had to leave. Dude walked in without any people skills, managed to piss everyone off within a week, a real sycophant, thought he knew everything and sided with the supplier when I raised a large of product defects. He was eventually walked out the door after I left. It doesn't say much for the standard of recruitment.
Re. diesel. I know this much - without it, the world stops. Apparently some of the large haul trucks run 24/7, whereas the token battery equivalent require hours to charge. According to Rio Tinto, " battery-electric heavy vehicles were capable of only short runs, and had to spend most of their time charging – but Rio would “persevere” with the technology. "
Thoroughly enjoyable read, excellent advice on manners and management, simple tips that don’t cost you anything but can make a world of difference to the person on the receiving end.
Enjoyed this one very much (thanks for the shout out and link btw) especially your elegant segue from ships to leadership - always a generous metaphor. Some very sound and preceptive advice around the need to act rather than observe and moan. Even writing can fall into the category of inaction if it is not followed or preceded by action. Great piece - thank you for it.
Such a well-expressed essay, Captain. I feel like I'm on that boat with you. In management, I'd give meaningful assignments and pay extra attention to unruffling the passage of fresh new starters - to show the purpose of aiming high in the long years of work ahead. Oh, and developing a finely-tuned bullshit detector.
Excellent piece.
Refreshing to read wisdom based on personal achievement as opposed to the ideology-driven public "servants" & egregious politicians, whose advice is as worthless as it is self serving.
Captain Yankee Jack's commonsense always confirms my long held belief that teenage kids should have experience in small boats as a vital part of their education.
I tend to think that mediocrity is the default, certainly among the political class, and all the way down. Management probably don't like to hire someone who might be smarter than they are, so it just perpetuates the declining level critical thinking. For the first time in a long time, I have a great manager, my former one was real c, so much so I had to leave. Dude walked in without any people skills, managed to piss everyone off within a week, a real sycophant, thought he knew everything and sided with the supplier when I raised a large of product defects. He was eventually walked out the door after I left. It doesn't say much for the standard of recruitment.
Re. diesel. I know this much - without it, the world stops. Apparently some of the large haul trucks run 24/7, whereas the token battery equivalent require hours to charge. According to Rio Tinto, " battery-electric heavy vehicles were capable of only short runs, and had to spend most of their time charging – but Rio would “persevere” with the technology. "