Achieving the important: A lesson from Army-Navy football
Washington Business Journal by Ingar Grev. December 16, 2011.
As an
Annapolis graduate, a Navy Football letter winner and a coach in the Navy Football system for three years, you can imagine that I
am quite thrilled that Navy beat Army in football for the 10th straight year. Navy fans couldn’t be happier; Army fans, on the other
hand, probably feel more like this. If I were to give West Point advice…
Should your business have a board of advisers?
Washington Business Journal by Ingar Grev. November 28, 2011
If you were
to ask me, I’d say a successful business has at least the following characteristics:
1) Scalable – growing AND is capable of handling
greater growth
2) Sustainable – continues to grow and be profitable if the owner/CEO takes a two to four week vacation, if a key person leaves the company, or if the most important customer is lost.
Grev, Ingar. “Toolbox: Diligent delegation.” Nashville Business Journal, December 2, 2011
Probably one of the best leadership skills I learned as a nuclear submarine officer in the U.S. Navy was delegation. Would you believe that on a nuclear submarine, the captain is involved in very little of the day-to-day activities?
Interview on “The Arnette Report.” Comcast Community Television, December 1, 2011 (interview date)
Ingar Grev returns to
The Arnette Report. Ingar was interviewed by Jeff and Karin Arnette on December 1, 2011. Originally aired December 2011.
Interview on “Entrepreneurs Club Radio,” WELW Radio (1330 AM), October 24, 2011.
Kip Marlow of The Entrepreneurs Club interviews
Ingar Grev on leadership, based on Ingar's series of articles in the Washington Business Journal on Leading your business like a SEAL
team. Interview aired on WELW 1330 AM (Cleveland, OH), October 24, 2011, 4PM.
What comes next after walking on the moon?
Washington Business Journal by Ingar Grev, January 10, 2012
Back in 1995, I had the
good fortune of spending four hours alone with America’s first man in space: Rear Admiral Alan Shepherd. I walked into the office
of one of my bosses, Jack Lengyel, who was the athletic director at the Naval Academy at the time, to ask him permission to hold my
wedding reception in the “N-Room” at Hubbard Hall. The encounter was a bit awkward…