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Leadership Lessons from the Navy

Skip Prichard

Captain Mark Brouker, retired US Navy , is a wealth of practical leadership wisdom gained from his military career as well as his experience as a professor, executive coach, and speaker. The term “paradigm shift” is a well-worn term. I did just that during the first fifteen years or so of my Navy career.

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Coddled Relatives Can Kill a Family Business

Harvard Business Review

During his entire career, he worked in his father''s span of control, reporting directly to his dad within six years of joining the business. Each of these career steps led to more and more responsibility befitting a rising—not a failing—executive. I don''t have the skills to be an executive.

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The Big Disconnect in Your Talent Strategy and How to Fix It

Harvard Business Review

HR systems emphasize long-term relationships and high performance, with big investments in selection and development, amortized over a long career. Traditional work analytics focused on regular full-time employees, and seemed to show that this change reduced senior scientist spans of control.