Good Ship; Good Captain... Bad Ship; Bad Exo

True leadership is not about taking credit when things go right or passing blame when they don’t. It is about protecting your leader, supporting your team, absorbing the pressure—and knowing when integrity demands that you speak up. A powerful lesson in loyalty, courage and the responsibility of being second-in-command.

An important leadership lesson for second in commands... We would have seen many examples of great leaders, putting their deputies up in the limelight when things go right and facing he bullet when otherwise - APJ Abdul Kalam, JRD Tata, Indra Nooyi, Warren Buffett etc. However, an equally important lesson used to be instilled to Executive Officers of ships and submarines, especially during their Principal Control Officers Course (also know as the Perisher's course in many navies). And this lesson is - Go

8/20/20261 min read

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