A leadership "tip" reinforcement, from The General

Here's something I (re)learned from watching The General (BGen Lawson) interacting with people at the Navy mess dinner, a few weeks back.

Know your people. It's a fairly universal tip, but when you see The General, who we don't see quite that often, going around and knowing a little bit about pretty much everyone, it's pretty impressive. It also gives off the impression (which I'm sure is well-founded) that he cares. Sure, we don't interact in day-to-day life--we're lowly Naval Cadets (or Officer Cadets...)--but he's in charge of us, he keeps track of us, and he looks over us.

This really helps, I think, to make people look up to the chain of command and feel proud to be serving under those people.