Leading with Character: Decisions Matter
Whether a decision is “good” or “bad” is not so much the issue; it’s whether the decision was executed properly.
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Leading with Character: Beating to Windward
The sea is a place of powerful forces like howling gales, crashing waves, and ebbing and flooding tides. Those forces make for great analogies that can apply to many aspects of day-to-day life and its challenges.
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Leading with Character: The Meaning of Success
To help employees discover and achieve their definition of success during tumultuous times, leaders must better understand their people and what motivates each one of them.
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Leading with Character: Gratitude
Gratefulness creates inner peace that extends to compassion, harmony, and positivity in the workplace, all of which leads to more fulfilled, productive employees.
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Leading with Character: The Three I’s of Leadership
A Coast Guard member emphatically stated to Mayorkas, “Mr. Secretary, we revere Admiral Ray.”
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Leading with Character: Initiative and Innovation
We need workplace cultures that reward the initiative and innovation that will help their organization flex and bend, not break, under the next big challenge we’re sure to face.
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Leading with Character: Demonstrate Moral Courage
My outlook on moral courage has been shaped most profoundly by observing those who failed to do the right thing.
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Leading with Character: Believe in Yourself and Others
The Coast Guard excels at leadership development by providing motivated members boundless chances to test themselves.
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Leading with Character: Build Trust and Earn Respect
Leading with character means sincerely humbling yourself to actively earn others’ respect through personal and professional power.
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Leading with Character: Leadership Philosophy
To serve as a good mentor to younger people, like cadets, I needed to understand what mattered to them.
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Leading with Character: Model the Way
Admiral Zukunft personified the servant leader whom people choose to follow.
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Leading with Character: Strengths and Weaknesses
We each have two metaphorical wolves fighting inside us: strengths and weaknesses. The one that wins will be the one you feed. I chose to feed my strengths. I don’t ignore my weaknesses, but I don’t let them consume me, either.
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Leading with Character: Mentoring Misperception No. 3
Young people competing for senior, influential mentors have been given the impression that’s the key to success.
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Leading with Character: Mentoring Misperception No. 2
My experience onboard Glacier taught me the value of mentoring at all levels. I learned that some of the best help can come from subordinates who are committed to the success of each individual and the entire team.
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Leading with Character: Mentoring Misperception No. 1
Entering the Coast Guard Academy with the third class to include women, I was often the only woman leading mostly all-male teams throughout my career.
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Leading with Character: Mentoring
Leaders at all levels can serve as mentors. Contrary to what many may think, mentoring isn’t limited to the conventional senior-to-junior relationships. Peer-to-peer mentoring is powerful and indicative of healthy respect between co-workers.
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Leading with Character: What Is a Leader of Character?
The Coast Guard Academy James M. Loy Institute for Leadership offers a compelling definition of a leader of character that has helped me steer a straight course.
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Leading with Character: Be an Ally
Since I was the first woman to captain a ship of any type on the Great Lakes, my assignment generated considerable media interest and speculation about the ability of a woman to command a ship in a male-dominated merchant marine industry.
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Leading with Character: Adapt, Adjust, and Be Agile
During Hurricane Harvey, there existed no national emergency call system for the social media realm. The commandant of the Coast Guard was quickly notified of the crisis.
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Leading with Character: Growth Through Failure
I wanted to quit after my first escapade in a sailboat. I noticed other cadets capsizing; it wasn’t only me.
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