Jenni‘s introduction to Intent-based Leadership from the Agile Breakfast is now available to watch in full with subtitles
In this video in our Conversations with Leaders series, L. David Marquet shares an early mistake he made as a U.S. Navy submarine captain. It’s the story that inspired his best-selling book, Turn the Ship Around!
The captain and his crew were getting ready for an inspection, the charts were perfect. And irrelevant. Turns out the team based the plan on information that was not applicable. “We wasted so much time. We needed to start over,” David said.
The team was reluctant to show something that was only half ready in order to get early input. The captain thought everyone knew what to do.
It’s a common problem – especially in Agile ways of working where we want to show our potentially-releasable solutions early to get feedback. What if we’re wrong? What if our stakeholders don’t like it? From the leader’s perspective, we often assume people understand what we want and why.
As David learned, “Don’t assume everyone’s got the same picture…That’s not enough. You’ve got to do it TOGETHER.”
Get a free chapter or order the book “TOGETHER – How leaders involve and engage people to get great things done” written by Ole and Jenni Jepsen.
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Not taking time to Understand Together leads to confusion, frustration, and lots of wasted time.
You can end meeting hell TOGETHER.
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A case history on the importance of understanding together and how it leads to getting great things done from best-selling author of Turn the Ship Around!, L. David Marquet.
Living in the era of the Covid-19 pandemic taught us the importance of doing things together. In this short video, David Marquet shares a story about how understanding and planning together made the difference in a not-for-profit organization he worked with.
Learn how they did it and how to take steps together to learn and adjust.
Get a free chapter or order the book “TOGETHER – How leaders involve and engage people to get great things done” written by Ole and Jenni Jepsen.
One of the characteristics of great leaders is vulnerability. Nordea’s Jørn Overgaard Christiansen shares lessons learned about the importance of empathy in working together.
Solving stressful challenges together. How CitizenM Copenhagen’s staff uses feedback to learn and move forward TOGETHER.