.: The Go-Getter

Peter B. Kyne

 

• Choosing the Go-Getter
• Youth in not a valid reason to withold responsibility
• Courage, Force and Initiative are the key qualifiers of the go-getter
• Being the Go-Getter
• Overtly display complete confidence in proven, quantified abilities:
• Plan, prepare for and accept only success, and you will have it.
• Once given the slightest opportunity deliver beyond all conceivable expectations.
• Don’t question orders even when they seem utterly foolish; obey them, obey them –on time, if possible, but if impossible, obey them anyhow.
• Remember loyalty to your chief.

  “There he stood, on one sound leg, with his sleeve tucked into his coat pocket and on his homely face the grin of an unwhipped, unbeatable man.”

• Do whatever it takes even bordering on the absurd in order to take your objective and come through for your chief.
• Leading the Go-Getter
• Promptly, frequently, aggressively, and progressively try and test the extent of the go-getter’s capacity in order to measure and quantify; once quantified invest in targeted development to magnify that capacity.
• Lay out your expectations from the beginning.
• In orders give task and purpose; limit control as much as possible.
• Make it clear that mistakes are allowed, reacted to and not to be repeated.
• Pay the go-getter what he is worth when he is worth it

  “You get nothing for nothing.”

• The value of a tested, developed, and therefore, trusted subordinate is worth all that is invested in the process.
• Esprit de corps doesn’t bubble up from the bottom. It filters down from the top. An organization is what its commanding officer is—neither better nor worse.
• You are responsible for the acts of your go-getters.
• IT SHALL BE DONE