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Connecting the Dots

Sean Heritage

Dots signify two things. First, they represent the milestones, large and small, happy and sad, we enjoy throughout the journey of life.
They additionally symbolize disparate pieces of data that by themselves mean far less than they do in the aggregate. This forum is all about celebrating the lessons of life, enjoying the journey, and making sense of things along the way. Our quality of life and the value we deliver have everything to do with how deliberate we are in...
Connecting the Dots

Sean Heritage

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Valued and Dispensable

Valued and Dispensable

I have found that the best leaders with whom I serve find a way to make themselves simultaneously valued and dispensable. A dichotomy indeed. The […]

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Sharing a Profession

Sharing a Profession

Earlier this week I had the privilege of presenting at Steelcase’s Curious Minds guest speaker series. A longtime friend of mine (We served together as […]

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Meaningful Differentiation

Meaningful Differentiation

As a family and though not as leisurely as any of us would have liked, we spent the last week driving across our beautiful country. […]

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Closing a Chapter

Closing a Chapter

August 02, 2017, may very well go down in my memory bank as the most significant day in my career as a leader. It was […]

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Responsible Friction

Responsible Friction

The health of an organization can often time be measured by the friction within. Friction is defined as (a) the rubbing of one body against another, […]

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Doing Voids: Responding and Preventing

Doing Voids: Responding and Preventing

Earlier this year I wrote about outcomes a team is able to generate because of effective leaders and value a team is able to deliver despite […]

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Betting on Horses

Betting on Horses

I am not a gambler, but some of my proudest moments as a leader come when I bet on the right horse. By “bet on” […]

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Degrees of Gratitude

Degrees of Gratitude

Think about the number of times you had reason to say, “You are welcome” over the last week. Would you say that it was 1 […]

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Unfinished By Design

Unfinished By Design

There are few things in life that are as satisfying as finishing something that you started. In my life, the two feats I am most […]

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Doing the Opposite

Doing the Opposite

The order of things: the way that life and the world currently are. I have been giving a great deal of thought to the order […]

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Make it Personal

Make it Personal

Over the last couple of days, I have been tracking the National Football League’s (NFL) Draft from afar. It’s not that I am fanatical about […]

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Asking for Directions

Asking for Directions

Those of us who remember life before our smartphones can recall a day when we didn’t have the answers to most of our questions at […]

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Environment and the Norm

Environment and the Norm

Today marks my 591st day as a proud member and the Commanding Officer of Navy Cyber Defense Operations Command. When I joined this team I […]

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Capturing Value

Capturing Value

No matter our profession or our role within a team, we have a shared responsibly: deliver or create value for the customer. And whether we […]

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Prioritized Success and Equitable Failure

Prioritized Success and Equitable Failure

We are taught early on in life to treat people as we want to be treated. We also have the good fortune of living in […]

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Engaging “The Others”

Engaging “The Others”

People who are truly committed to their profession, their team, and their potential tend to have little trouble bouncing out of bed, giving their best, […]

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Raising the Floor

Raising the Floor

I am a big fan of John Maxwell’s teachings. One of my favorite of the ‘laws’ of leadership he espouses is that of the ‘Law […]

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The Tenured Team

The Tenured Team

I am not an academic, but I feel as though I long ago reached the point of having tenure as a Naval Officer. Generally speaking, […]

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(Un)Constrained by the Past

(Un)Constrained by the Past

Last week is a week I’ll remember for quite a while. I engaged the week oriented entirely on the future. It was to start with […]

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Converging Paths: Doing and Being

Converging Paths: Doing and Being

Two weeks ago I had the privilege of being a member of a board that was charged with selecting our next crop of Commanding Officers. […]

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