The first mate gets him his red shirt, he puts it on and – together with the rest of the crew – they fight off the pirates. Life goes back to normal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The next day, the guy in the crows nest shouts down “Captain, Captain, there are TWO pirate ships about to board us.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n To which the Captain replies: “First Mate, get me my red shirt”<\/mark><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n The first mate gets him his red shirt, he puts it on and – together with the rest of the crew – they fight off the pirates. Life goes back to normal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Third day – and I feel you’re sensing that this ship was sailing in bad waters – the guy in the crows nest shouts “There are 3 pirate ships, about to board us”<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n To which the Captain replies: “First Mate, get me my red shirt”<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n The first mate gets him his red shirt, he puts it on and – together with the rest of the crew – they fight off the pirates. Life goes back to normal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n After a week, the (wounded) First Mate asks the Captain: “Why do you always ask for your red shirt?”<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n “My primary job as your Captain is to maintain morale. I wear a red shirt so that – if I get wounded whilst fighting, and start bleeding, the crew won’t see my injuries. You’ll carry on fighting, which this gives us the greatest chance of success.”<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n The First Mate is suitably impressed by this…<\/p>\n\n\n\n To which the Captain replies “First Mate, get me my brown pants.”<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n In every phase of life; in every role; there are elements of leadership. Somedays, you’re the Captain, somedays you’re the First Mate, somedays you’re in the Crows Nest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And many days, you’ll be (rightfully) worried about the environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n True leaders sometimes wear red shirts. And they often wear brown pants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Years ago, I worked with a great developer. He built excellent systems for our customers. Yet – when the customer said to him “Should we go live?” – he would be see all the flaws in the system, and convince them to delay a go live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In this instance, I needed to wear brown pants… My advice to him? “Stand at the end of the precipice. Now.. take a deep breath… and jump.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n \n<\/p>\n\n\n “Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good”<\/p>\n\n\n\n\u2014 Voltaire<\/cite>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n How leadership is sometimes about being brave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":125,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leverage.mobi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leverage.mobi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leverage.mobi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leverage.mobi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leverage.mobi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/leverage.mobi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156,"href":"https:\/\/leverage.mobi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/156"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leverage.mobi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leverage.mobi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leverage.mobi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leverage.mobi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/leverage.mobi\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Pirates.jpg\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\nThis goes on for a few more days, and each day they repel more pirates.<\/sup><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
To which the Captain replies…<\/sup><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
The Next Day, the guy in the Crows Nest shouts “Captain, Captain, there are 20 pirate ships about to board us!”<\/sup><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Captain – how does this relate to you?<\/sup><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
A Personal Anecdote<\/sup><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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