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Somehow, things just didn’t work out the way the books on administration and on leadership said they should, and I early became aware that I could never qualify as a leader, if it were really necessary that I possess the twenty or so qualities most books or articles on leadership claimed to be necessary. So far, I have found no one in the Navy or in industry who possesses more than a few of these qualities, and so I have regretfully come to the conclusion that the only person who ever possessed all of them died some 1900 years ago.

Hyman Rickover (1900-1986) American naval engineer, submariner, US Navy Admiral
Speech (1954-03-16), “Administering a Large Military Development Project,” US Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California

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Rickover, Hyman - Speech (1954-03-16), “Administering a Large Military Development Project,” US Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California | WIST Quotations

Somehow, things just didn't work out the way the books on administration and on leadership said they should, and I early became aware that I could never qualify as a leader, if it were really necessary that I possess the twenty or so qualities most books or articles on leadership…

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Insecurity Princess 🌈💖🔥Dec 29, 2023

The contrast between my experiences and what I read in "Engineering Management for the Rest of Us" is wild

No shade on Sarah Drasner, we just have wildly different perspectives even though we have similar values

She writes that "Working with teams made more sense to me when I started to learn about values" — whereas I found exactly the opposite: Values seemed like nonsense until I started thinking about how organizations operate and how org leaders can align on reinforcing values (or, more frequently, completely fail at doing that, probably because at least one leader is meandering off with their own conflicting values and that's just tolerated For Reasons).

#ManagementBooks

Jason Yip Jul 4, 2023

It’s hard to buy the argument when 2 out of 5 of the “successful” examples no longer exist. #ManagementBooks