This is really eye opening. Thank you for sharing!
Though I feel the military & the Marines specifically might be an outlier and not a valid comparison
They may be, tangentially, my experience resonates with blue collar and union workers that I know.
Those were the negative examples. More positively, engineers are motivated by many of the same things Marines are and I use these aspects in my day-to-day leadership as well. I exercise transparency, when I know the team is shouldering a burden I acknowledge it and steps were taking to minimize it over time. Marines and engineers like knowing their purpose and place in the world. They both desire a framework that establishes a domain for their autonomy. They both desire leaders who are scrappy enough to fight in the trenches but with the tactical persuasion to have vision from above while leading from the front. They're both willing to put in whatever it takes to accomplish the mission but they want to be recognized for doing so, and not necessarily monetarily. Again, I could go on.
kodah|4 years ago
Those were the negative examples. More positively, engineers are motivated by many of the same things Marines are and I use these aspects in my day-to-day leadership as well. I exercise transparency, when I know the team is shouldering a burden I acknowledge it and steps were taking to minimize it over time. Marines and engineers like knowing their purpose and place in the world. They both desire a framework that establishes a domain for their autonomy. They both desire leaders who are scrappy enough to fight in the trenches but with the tactical persuasion to have vision from above while leading from the front. They're both willing to put in whatever it takes to accomplish the mission but they want to be recognized for doing so, and not necessarily monetarily. Again, I could go on.