INTRODUCTION
The Value of Values
On a sunny December day, Captain Matt Feely visited my MBA class on leadership at Columbia University to talk about his experience during the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011. He had been stationed in Yokosuka, near Tokyo, as the commanding officer of the logistics operation that served the US Navy’s Seventh Fleet. His team was at the center of the United States’ extensive efforts to bring humanitarian aid and relief to the people of Japan.
When the massive, 9.0-magnitude earthquake struck on March 11, it triggered a devastating tsunami and a nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi plant. The US military swiftly launched Operation Tomodachi—which means “friend” in Japanese—mobilizing aircraft carriers, helicopters, ...
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