Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Building Leaders by Breaking the Rules

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Also heaving down. Tilting a ship on its side, usually when beached, to clean or repair the hull below the waterline. cargo liner Also Latin-rig. A triangular, sometimes quadrilateral, fore-and-aft sail set on a long yard mounted at an angle to the mast. [3] lateral system A system of aids to navigation in which characteristics of buoys and beacons indicate the sides of the channel or route relative to a conventional direction of buoyage (usually upstream). lattice mast The single most powerful mechanism that we implemented for reducing mistakes and making Santa Fe operationally excellent” was called deliberate action. “This meant that prior to any action, the operator paused and vocalized and gestured toward what he was about to do, and only after taking a deliberate pause would he execute the action… The senior inspector told me this: ‘Your guys tried to make the same number of mistakes as everyone else. But the mistakes never happened because of deliberate action. Either they were corrected by the operator himself or by a teammate.’ He was describing a resilient organization, one where error propagation is stopped. Eventually we would expand deliberate action to administrative paperwork. When documents were signed carelessly, we injected the concept of deliberate action into the act (mostly for officers) of signing and authorizing events.” a b c Adams, Jonathan (2013). A maritime archaeology of ships: innovation and social change in late medieval and early modern Europe. Oxford: Oxbow Books. ISBN 9781782970453.

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One of the advantages of a small command is the abutting completely affect change. This gave the author an advantage as he and his crew made changes, evaluated the results, and made further changes. They also had the advantage of a built in set of measurements. Also charter ship. A term used by the British East India Company from the 17th to the 19th centuries for a merchant ship it chartered to make a single, often one-way, voyage between England (later the United Kingdom) and ports east of the Cape of Good Hope, a trade over which the company held a strict monopoly. A charter ship during its single voyage was employed in much the same way as what the company called an extra ship, though the company usually hired charter ships on special terms and for much shorter periods. [42] charthouse A compartment from which the ship was navigated, especially in the Royal Navy. chartplotter An electronic instrument that places the position of the ship (from a GPS receiver) onto a digital nautical chart displayed on a monitor, thereby replacing all manual navigation functions. Chartplotters also display information collected from all shipboard electronic instruments and often directly control autopilots. chase gun Marine Safety Alert 090-14: Air Draft is Critical!" (PDF) (Press release). United States Coast Guard Inspections and Compliance Directorate. 2014-09-09 . Retrieved 2015-02-15. Because, if there’s one thing people like more than following is being followed. Everyone can be a leader, in its own fashion. Use "I intend to... " to turn passive followers into active leaders. Avoid disempowered phrases such as "Request permission to . . . I would like to . . . What should I do about . . . Do you think we should . . . Could we . . ." Enough context (justification) should be provided with this statement so that there would be no need for additional clarification and you can just approve the statement.a b c d e f "Origin of Navy Terminology". Naval History and Heritage Command . Retrieved 2022-03-22.

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As a former Navy “Nuke” I am a bit biased towards this book as it spoke of situations I am familiar with in a language I was fluent in. Harvey, Steven (2007). It Started with a Steamboat: An American Saga. Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse. p.64. ISBN 9781425967192. Look at your structures for awards… Do they pit some of your employees against other ones? That structure will result in competition at the lowest level. If what you want is collaboration, then you are destroying it. Instead, have awards that are abundant, with no limit. They pit your team against the world—either external competitors or nature.” The author adds, “Simply providing data to the teams on their relative performance results in a natural desire to improve.”

Layton, C.W.T.; Clissold, Peter; Miller, A.G.W. (1994). "Dictionary of Nautical Words and Terms: 8000 Definitions in Navigation, Seamanship, Rigging, Meteorology, Astronomy, Naval Architecture, Average, Ship Economics, Hydrography, Cargo Stowage, Marine Engineering, Ice Terminology, Buoyage, Yachting, etc" (PDF) (Revised Fourthed.). Glasgow: Brown, Son & Ferguson, Ltd., Nautical publishers. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-02-27 . Retrieved 2014-02-23. The leader-leader model not only achieves great improvements in effectiveness and morale but also makes the organization stronger. Most critically, these improvements are enduring, decoupled from the leader’s personality and presence. Leader-leader structures are significantly more resilient, and they do not rely on the designated leader always being right. Further, leader-leader structures spawn additional leaders throughout the organization naturally.” The problem with specifying the method along with the goal is one of diminished control. Provide your people with the objective and let them figure out the method.” Above all, you want them to think for themselves and make decisions for themselves. To be leaders. Each and every one of them.

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Abeam", Hydrographic Dictionary, International Hydrographic Organization, archived from the original on 2016-10-18 , retrieved 2016-10-17 Read, David (2014-11-11). "D". Glossary of Nautical Terms. Practical Boat Owner . Retrieved 2021-02-18.

Also general quarters or action stations. 1.An announcement made aboard a naval warship to signal the crew to prepare for battle, imminent damage, or any other emergency (such as a fire). 2.Specific positions in a naval warship to which one or more crew members are assigned when battle stations is called. battlecruiser A type of large capital ship of the first half of the 20th century, similar in size, appearance, and cost to a battleship and typically armed with the same kind of heavy guns, but much more lightly armored (on the scale of a cruiser) and therefore faster than a battleship but more vulnerable to damage. battleship A type of large, heavily armored warship of the second half of the 19th century and first half of the 20th century, armed with heavy-caliber guns and designed to fight other battleships in a line of battle. It was the successor to the ship-of-the-line used during the Age of Sail. beach Palmer, Joseph (1975). Jane's Dictionary of Naval Terms. London: Macdonald and Janes. ISBN 0-356-08258-X. Figure out the types of decisions that’d affect your organization’s ability to achieve excellence in those areas.