Musings, leadership tidbits and quotes posted by a retired Navy Captain (really just a high performing 2nd Class Petty Officer) who hung up his uniform a bit too early. He still wears his Navy service on his sleeve. He needs to get over that. "ADVANCE WARNING - NO ORIGINAL THOUGHT!" A "self-appointed" lead EVANGELIST for the "cryptologic community". Keeping CRYPTOLOGY alive-one day and Sailor at a time. 2015 is 80th Anniversary of the Naval Security Group.
His point that as one progresses in rank, the importance of the diversity a junior officer brings to the wardroom diminishes to the point where, as a senior officer having followed a set career path, he shares the more-or-less singular mindset of the senior leadship, is a good one. I see this happening in the civilian sector, too. But I think this phenomenon is just the "nature of the beast," and perhaps a morally neutral development (well, for the most part, anyway).
So is this necessarily a bad thing? Well, if it leads the leadership to be unable to "think outside the bun," sure it is. But if that isn't really a significant issue (and I will leave it to others to comments on that), why fix what ain't broke? And if it is broke, how does it get fixed?
His point that as one progresses in rank, the importance of the diversity a junior officer brings to the wardroom diminishes to the point where, as a senior officer having followed a set career path, he shares the more-or-less singular mindset of the senior leadship, is a good one. I see this happening in the civilian sector, too. But I think this phenomenon is just the "nature of the beast," and perhaps a morally neutral development (well, for the most part, anyway).
ReplyDeleteSo is this necessarily a bad thing? Well, if it leads the leadership to be unable to "think outside the bun," sure it is. But if that isn't really a significant issue (and I will leave it to others to comments on that), why fix what ain't broke? And if it is broke, how does it get fixed?