About the New Deck Plate

We make leaders better.

The New Deck Plate is a place to share ideas and think in new ways; all in an effort to provide a means for self-improvement for naval and military leaders. Steel sharpens steel – we will lean on one another to collectively improve.

Good Enough, isn’t

First and foremost, we ask “Why.” We challenge ideas and do our best to use the scientific method to prove or disprove current, conventional, cutting edge, or traditional ways of thinking.

Tools to implement now.

Military leadership is hard. The New Deck Plate is not the place for “feel good” slogans and catchphrases passed off as advice. We hold each other accountable for providing solid, practical, actionable advice. Ideas founded on good research are preferred, but anecdotal or pseudoscience-based ideas that are solid, practical, and actionable are welcome.