Given a choice, I prefer making a difference to making noise. Time for some of you to stop talking (noise making) and to start making a difference.

Get busy. People are waiting.

There is something very comfortable in having plenty of stationery.

Charles Dickens

One of the guys that I feel truly honored to be associated with has some critical leadership traits that more of our cryptologists need to embrace.  Here are the traits that he has which have made him more significant in our Navy:

• He is always looking for ways to make a difference.
  He sees his own job description as the bare minimum. Throughout his Navy career he has created opportunities. I think that’s a big part of what leaders do. He identifies opportunities and applies himself and his team, frequently without invitation to do so.  And he takes a large part of their crew right along with them – sometimes kicking and screaming (with delight).
• He follows that overwhelming desire to take action and leads his crew to more action.
  He uses the regular hours of his day job as a commanding officer to teach his Sailors that there is no known limit to their capabilities.  He and his crew seem to have a voracious appetite for learning and teaching. They thrive on multiple tasks or projects, which lead to increased productivity.  He and his team are always talking about “excess command capacity for more work.”  Then they go into action to use that excess capacity to the Navy’s advantage.
• He exerts his influence as much as possible.
  He resigned from the Navy at one point in frustration over major differences in direction.  As a leader  he’s been in the trenches long enough to stand above it all and provide his crew with a big picture view where the whole team can assess cause and effect.
• He always helps other would-be leaders. 

Thanks Shipmate.  You know who you are.  And, so does most everyone else.

George Bernard Shaw.

“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple… But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.”

– George Bernard Shaw

“Leadership must be based on goodwill. Goodwill does not mean posturing and, least of all, pandering to the mob. It means obvious and wholehearted commitment to helping followers. We are tired of leaders we fear, tired of leaders we love, and most tired of leaders who let us take liberties with them. What we need for leaders are men of the heart who are so helpful that they, in effect, do away with the need of their jobs. But leaders like that are never out of a job, never out of followers.”

 

Information Warfare (IW) – (1810). Applicants within this community will be considered from any designator. Primary consideration should be given to sustained superior performers with the skills, education, and background to contribute to the IW core competencies of Signals Intelligence (SIGINT), Electronic Warfare (EW), and Computer Network Operations (CNO).

The IW community has technical leadership opportunities for officers with undergraduate and graduate degrees in the following preferred fields of study: electrical engineering, systems engineering, computer engineering, physics, mathematics, or computer science. Experience and certifications gained outside traditional academic venues should also be recognized and considered by the Board.

From the Lateral Transfer Board Precepts.

From “The Top 10 Lessons Steve Jobs Taught Us”