At the United States Naval Academy’s Forrestal Lecture Series, Secretary of the Navy Gordon England identified important principles of leadership based on his personal experiences as a business executive and as the 72nd Secretary of the Navy.
Those fifteen principles are as follows:
- Provide an environment for every person to excel
- Treat every person with dignity and respect — nobody is more important than anyone else
- Be forthright, honest and direct with every person and in every circumstance
- Improve effectiveness to gain efficiency
- Cherish your time and the time of others — it is not renewable
- Identify the critical problems that need solution for the organization to succeed
- Describe complex issues and problems simply so every person can understand
- Never stop learning — depth and breadth of knowledge are equally important
- Encourage constructive criticism
- Surround yourself with great people and delegate to them full authority and responsibility
- Make ethical standards more important than legal requirements
- Strive for team-based wins, not individual
- Emphasize capability — not organization
- Incorporate measures and metrics everywhere
- Concentrate on core functions and outsource all other
“England Expects That Every Man Will Do His DUTY” Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson, Battle of Trafalgar, 21 October 1805
Webpage: http://bfgf.org/Initiative/Leadership/UpcomingEvents/PrinciplesOfLeadership.htm
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