Jocko Podcast 73 - Confront Abuse of Authority

[mynewunit]

Podcast Page
0:00:00 – Opening

0:00:44 – How to never over react to situations.

0:08:41 – How to handle being a NEW leader standing in front of your NEW team.

0:13:57 – How long to get the (BJJ) Blue Belt?

0:28:56 – Managing people who out-perform you–Best Approach.

0:34:32 – Effectively lead a team who’s members’ goal is only to be “THE BOSS.”

0:45:59 – Lessons learned from 70+ episodes of JOCKO PODCAST.

1:07:11 – How can Jiu Jitsu reduce fear in life?

1:19:26 – Navigating Jiu Jitsu with nagging injuries or being injury prone.

1:29:10 – Capitalizing on a team member NOT being a team player.

1:35:37 – Confronting abuse of authority.

1:48:10 – Dealing with situations where you can’t fire someone due to unions.

1:51:52 – Taking “Ego is the enemy” too far?

2:00:48 – What to do when you’re over worked and coming up short.\

2:04:10 – Support, Cool Onnit, Amazon, JockoStore stuff, with Jocko White Tea and Psychological Warfare (on iTunes). Extreme Ownership (book), (Jocko’s Kids’ Book) Way of the Warrior Kid, and The Muster002.

2:30:30 – Final Gratitude

[digitaltemujin]

I have a question about Jocko's answer regarding team members who want 'to be the boss'. His answer was to let them.

My question; What if the person wanting to be the boss does not display positive leadership qualities? who is trying to be the boss for (in my opinion) the wrong reasons?

I'm thinking of a team member that I know who clearly wants to earn a promotion but does not lead. He is a braggart, unprofessional and lazy. He does not motivate but he tries to be conspicuous as possible about the things he thinks should earn him a promotion. Such as wooing current leadership, asking to take the more prestigious training courses that are intended for leaders and not bothering with the fundamental courses that will make him a better worker. He does not care to better his current skills but yet wants to teach others. When he was invited to help instruct a short class he immediately gave himself the title 'training officer'. If our local leadership doesn't give him want he wants he will often go above them and try to obtain special things from our regional leadership. He make promises about things he will do for the team but usually does not do them.

For the most part our local leadership do not want to see him rise up for those reasons, but to his credit he continues to try. Many on the frontline team fear his rise to leadership as well.

I'm conflicted because we are flirting with nepotism by keeping this person from rising up, and not laying out a clear expectation of new leaders. But at the same time he is the type of 'leader' that could cause collapse to team. I share the fear of the team

[mynewunit]

In the public sector and even the military there is a term of "chasing points". When too many people are involved, advancement is based upon points. The points are logical and help establish changes in authority, responsibility, etc. Once you have enough points, you get your promotion. There are some people who will run in all kinds of directions to collect points without actually improving themselves. They just want the points for the promotions, rank and eventually pay.

What Jocko is talking about is his concept of always be training your replacement. If you have JP, or Dave Berke you teach them how to do their job, then you teach them how to do your job. That way if you aren't there someone else can fill in. If need to change jobs someone is already there to fill the void. If they are actually better than you they can take your job, if you have the team ahead of yourself.

Obviously, your team member, Steve Carell from the office, and many others don't get that.