Mindset Check: Doing versus Accomplishing
One of the key principles that we at Trident Leadership emphasize, is that good leadership, by its nature, focuses on Accomplishing instead of just Doing. The question, “to achieve what,” is an uncompromising yet helpful one. What we find is that the typical organization or team is very task-oriented…with a posture eyes-down on what they do. Many businesses are like this.
Iwo Jima: 67 Years of Lessons
Sixty-seven years ago, 19 February 1945, Marines of the 4th and 5th Marine Divisions assaulted a horrible looking, other-worldly volcano called Iwo Jima. The 3rd Marine Division joined the battle soon after. They were there for the airfields. It would take them thirty-six days and more than twenty-six thousand casualties to do it.
