Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Manage Like Captain Kirk

I borrowed a copy of "Star Trek, the complete Second Season" from the local library to show my children The Trouble with Tribbles. Besides watching Tribbles, we watched The Doomsday Machine. I realized I can manage just like a Star Fleet Officer:
  1. When in doubt - do it yourself. Captain Kirk heads up the team to investigate the crippled USS Constellation. No Junior Officer training here
  2. If you don't like the way things are going - take over. Commodore Decker takes Captain Kirk's absence to take over command of the Enterprise and orders an attack on the Doomsday Machine.
  3. Ignore risk - just do it. Commodore Decker steals a shuttle craft and charges the Doomsday machine.
  4. If at first you don't succeed get a bigger hammer. Commodore Decker has the right idea, a shuttle craft isn't big enough. Kirk tries the same thing with the USS Constellation and saves the day.
Maybe for the next installment we should take our next set of Leadership tips from A Piece of the Action.

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