Leadership to Success

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Leadership to Success

• Capt Jason Mello

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Top Ten reasons it is good to be a CGO

• 10. When I make a reservation at the Navy VOQ,
  I always get a suite and a driver ready asking if
  the CAPTAIN is ready.
• 9. No one ever questions where I am
• 8. Where else can I wear bars and not have a
  friend named bubba
• 7. When I screw up, I always get Hes only a
  Lieutenant
• 6. Right out of college, they let you fly a 90
  million airplane!

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Top Ten reasons it is good to be a CGO

• 5. They always think I am prior enlisted
• 4. There is always great parking for any LT at
  the OClub
• 3. At the commissary too! It always says Any
  General Officer
• 2. Although it is 9 years long, it feels like
  college all over again
• 1. How else do you think I finally got to visit
  Nashville!

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Websters Dictionary Definition

• Leadership n. 1. The position or office of
• a leader. 2. Capacity or ability to lead.
• 3. A Group of leaders. 4. Guidance, direction
• The leadership of the new president.

Leadership is not based on rank or objective, but
ones ability to influence and persuade people to
follow their objectives and tasks
Leadership  the art of getting someone else to
do something you want done because he wants to do
it.  Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Leadership List for Success

• Integrity
• Understand your Assignment
• Initiatives and Risks
• Email is Evil
• Emotions and Work
• Be Punctual
• Ensure Effective Meetings
• Set the Example
• Herding Cats
• Understanding the Team
• Do not abuse your leadership position or
  authority

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Integrity

• Doing the right thing when no one is watching.
• Doing the right thing when one is watching

If you have integrity, nothing else matters.  If
you don't have integrity, nothing else matters. 
Alan Simpson
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Understand your assignment

• Understand you job duties
• Demand clear guidance on your duties
• Establish a network of people to assist you
• Know your surroundings and you will prevent
  future headaches

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Initiative and Risk

• Do not let a lack of initiative prevent you from
  becoming successful
• Understand the risk, then take on the challenges
  even if the risk is high the success is higher

Do or Do Not, There is No Try -- Yoda
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Email is Evil

• Avoid total communication via email
• Pick up the phone
• Walk down to the next cubicle
• Talk to your office mate
• Read all emails before you send them
• Avoid the recall! Remember only people on your
  same system will work with recall
• Leadership is not based on the number of emails
  in your inbox

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Keep Your Boss Happy

• And your Bosss Boss!

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Emotions and Work

• Do not let emotions take charge of you or your
  ability to accomplish your work
• Emotional behavior and reactions leads to
• Poor leadership decisions
• Lack of respect from subordinates

It's not personal, Sonny. It's strictly
business. Godfather Part 1
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Be Punctual

• What else more do we need to say

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Ensure Effective Meetings

• Start on time/End time see previous
• Ensure that the right players are in the meeting
  (know everyone in the meeting PAFB Example)
• Ensure that all open discussions are allowed to
  take place

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Set The Example

• Someone is always watching you!
• USECAF visiting Elementary School

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Understand the Team

• Leadership by Walking Around
• Get to know your people
• Understand who are the problem solvers and the
  problem makers
• Leadership is like herding cats sometimes

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Do not abuse authority

• Do not abuse your position of authority
• Ex. Executive Officer making decisions for GO
• Ex. Using rank and office for personal gain

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• The price of success is hard work, dedication to
  the job at hand, and the determination that
  whether we win or lose, we have applied the best
  of ourselves to the task at hand. -Vince
  Lombardi

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• Leadership  the art of getting someone else to
  do something you want done because he wants to do
  it.  Dwight D. Eisenhower
• There are no secrets to success. It is the result
  of preparation, hard work, and learning from
  failure. Colin Powell

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Leadership List for Success

• Integrity
• Understand your Assignment
• Initiatives and Risks
• Email is Evil
• Emotions and Work
• Be Punctual
• Ensure Effective Meetings
• Set the Example
• Herding Cats
• Understanding the Team
• Do not abuse your leadership position or
  authority

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