Comments on: Span of Control: The Leadership Secret of Captain Ahab https://rapidstartleadership.com/the-leadership-secret-of-captain-ahab/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-leadership-secret-of-captain-ahab Accelerating the Leader to Excellence Wed, 07 Mar 2018 13:01:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Ken Downer https://rapidstartleadership.com/the-leadership-secret-of-captain-ahab/#comment-62 Wed, 23 Sep 2015 20:17:30 +0000 http://rapidstartleadership.com/?p=1340#comment-62 In reply to Alvin Sanders.

Right. Good example using the Incident Command and the search process. A challenge for the leader is once you have delegated, you have to resist the temptation to step back in or work around the person you put in charge – it will cause confusion as to who is in charge of what, and undercut the leader you delegated to, reducing trust.

]]> By: Alvin Sanders https://rapidstartleadership.com/the-leadership-secret-of-captain-ahab/#comment-57 Wed, 23 Sep 2015 13:43:48 +0000 http://rapidstartleadership.com/?p=1340#comment-57 Delegation is important. You will quickly exhaust your self if you try to micro manage two 20 man teams much less thousands of men. The ICS is a great example of how delegation works. The Incident Commander is at the top with Section Chiefs under him who have people under them who delegate down through the chain so that Ground Team member Bob can get deployed in the right search grid.

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