Posted on May 22, 2009 - by Morgan Howard
Lessons learned from watching the “Deadliest Catch”
Has your husband made comments that you you’re watching too much “Deadliest Catch? Or maybe your girlfriend doesn’t really get why you watch the show about crab fishermen? Well, next time – tell them your learning valuable lessons. I came across a blog today entitled, “Five Things Deadliest Catch Teaches Small Business Owners” by Steve Averill. Since I’m a small business owner myself, this caught my attention.
I think its a good article and it made me realize that in many ways I operate my small businesses similar to the way I was taught about work growing up commercial fishing. My employees and I work around the “job” and not an arbitrary time clock. We work as long as it takes to make the deadline and then take time off when the work allows. My work ethic is definitely the same as the fishermen I grew up with – they are the hardest working group you will ever encounter. To this day – I have never seen anyone work harder than the man who owned the F/V Cornelia Marie before my mother and Captain Phil … his name is Ralph Collins. I will have to write about him some day.
As it turns out, I was shocked to find many other articles written about “lessons learned from the Deadliest Catch”. There are several articles written about “leadership”, like this one and this one. Or how about “leadership lessons for the military” learned from the Deadliest Catch. Lastly, my short search turned up this gem about “Poker lessons” learned from crab fishermen.
Has anybody out there have any lessons they learned from the show?
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May 22, 2009
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Steve Averill said:
Morgan,
Thanks for posting this! We love the show and after I really thought about why I was drawn to it, the post was born. Keep doin what you do. Steve
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May 22, 2009
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Leilani Jordan said:
I have watched your show for a long time, and the one thing I have learned from all the fisherman, is that it doesnt matter that they are competitors, they are there for eachother and when something bad happens, if they can get there to help you, they will no questions asked or denyed. They are the most human heart-felt people I have ever known or hope to meet. Keep up the great work, be safe and no matter what, please know that there is someone out there praying for your safe return..ME
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May 23, 2009
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Daddy Cakes® said:
We watch “The Deadliest Catch” once the kids go to bed and I’m also a reader of Steve Averill’s http://www.ocbizblog.com – It’s really great to see both of them integrated together – Great job Steve.
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May 24, 2009
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Chris H said:
If I hear my wife say “I really like Captain Phil” one more time I’m gonna shoot myself. I hear it 60 times a season.
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May 25, 2009
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Debbie S said:
I learned that you shouldn’t smoke no matter what, but especially if you have broken ribs and can’t breathe!!! And also, that if you don’t cuss like a sailor, you can’t be one.