Leading Through Uncertainty with David Silverman #12

David Silverman (@dksilverman) shares how to prioritize effectively, regain productivity, compartmentalize pain, and accelerate your rate of learning to succeed through a crisis. You’ll also hear how to apply his lessons to real case studies shared by engineering leaders from our community.

“When you're dealing with uncertainty, the main thing you're trying to drive and change as the leader, is you're trying to increase the rate of learning.”

ABOUT DAVID SILVERMAN

Leadership expert and best-selling author David Silverman has paved the way in transforming groups into high-performing, agile, and adaptive teams that drive success. David continues to bring out the best in people as CEO and Founder of CrossLead. A graduate of the United States Naval Academy, David served in the US Navy as a SEAL Officer for 12 years. Building off of his collective leadership experiences, David created CrossLead as a holistic performance management solution for today’s environment. CrossLead is designed to empower leaders, teams, and organizations to scale the adaptability of elite small teams to the entire enterprise.

David previously co-founded the McChrystal Group and led the company as CEO from 2011 through 2015. During his time at McChrystal Group, David laid out the framework for CrossLead as a co-author in the New York Times bestseller Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World.

If you want to learn more about David Silverman and CrossLead, connect with him on LinkedIn or check out CrossLead.

SHOWNOTES

• David’s experience with uncertainty from the Navy SEAL’s (1:15)
• How to compartmentalize and deal with physical and mental pain (5:16)
• How to restore and improve your productivity (13:11)
• How to increase your rate of learning to succeed when things are changing fast (16:26)
• The difference between “wartime” and “peacetime” leaders (26:10)
• How to prioritize effectively in a crisis applying the framework “Ship, Shipmate, Self” (29:33)
• How you can build trust in a crisis (34:29)
• Applying Dave’s lessons in a company trying to find product-market fit (38:11)
• How to apply the tools to deal with uncertainty to support your family (40:55)
• How to deal with uncertainty when you’re not the decision-maker (45:23)
• How you can boost team morale in the short and long term (48:41)
• How to create trust and camaraderie remotely (51:56)
• How to deal with cross-team or cross-organization issues and negotiations (54:06)

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