I was asked by a concerned spouse if our community values character in our Naval officers, particularly among those officers in command who serve as role models for those they command.
I believe that we do.
What do you think?
Author: captain1610
Note to self…
Commander Henry Stephenson is generating some buzz in the IDC
In his recent USNI Proceeding Article “MASTERS OR JACKS”, his thesis is that ‘Treating the Information Dominance Corps as a general warfare competency risks weakening the skill sets of its specialists.’ You can read his entire article HERE for free.
You should also consider joining USNI. www.usni.org
What do you think?
Know something? Share it with your Shipmates
“If wisdom were offered me on the one condition that I should keep it shut away and not divulge it to anyone,” said Roman philosopher Seneca, “I should reject it. There is no enjoying the possession of anything valuable unless one has someone to share it with.”
From 99U.
Meetings are killing us
Time is an organization’s scarcest – and most often squandered – resource. To demonstrate how poorly most organizations manage this precious commodity, we used data-mining tools to analyze the Outlook schedules of everyone in a large company. What follows is real data from that company and how its weekly excom meeting rippled throughout the organization in a profoundly disturbing way.
1 weekly excom meeting accounts for 7,000 hours a year. At the excom meeting senior-level staff provide updates on all phases of the business. It uses 7,000 person hours of executives’ times annually. To prepare for this meeting, individual excom members need to meet with unit chiefs….people [at the company] spent 300,000 hours a year just supporting the weekly executive committee meeting.
From 99U.
Where are we headed?
NAVIDFOR will have their Commanders’ Conference is a couple of weeks. Things will be more clear then.
Being busy
I Am Military History
My Shipmate and friend, Master Chief Tim Moon has a new venture to capture our military history. On 5 November, the site http://www.iammilitaryhistory.com will go live. Check it out. I think you’ll like it.
Go Navy – beat Irish
Last note from MCPON conference with 100+ Master Chiefs
On social media:
“People (Sailors) are information hungry, and that’s the world we live in, that’s the world that communication is so key to,” said Rear Admiral Dawn Cutler – Chief of Navy Information. “So we need to know it, we need to understand it, we need to teach our Sailors how to use it responsibly, and we all need to embrace it from the leadership level as a great tool to talk to our various audiences.”
From NavyNews HERE
From NavyNews HERE
I Like The Cut of His Jib 
