Into the Storm (29 page)

Preface

1
.  The measurements used in the book are nautical miles for distance and knots for speeds. One nautical mile is equivalent to 1.15 statute miles. A knot is equivalent to 1.15 miles per hour. In some cases, statute miles and miles per hour are also shown.

PART ONE: THE STORY OF THE
AFR MIDNIGHT RAMBLER
AND THE SYDNEY TO HOBART RACE

Chapter 2: The Patriarch of a Sailing Family

1
.  Bill Psaltis, personal communication.

Chapter 3:
Nuzulu
and the Start of a Winning Team

1
.  Arthur Psaltis, personal communication.

Chapter 6: The Aussie Competitors

1
.  Information about Australian competitors was derived from the following books: G. Bruce Knecht,
The Proving Ground
(New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2002); Kim Leighton,
A Hard Chance: The Sydney Hobart Disaster
(Minocqua, WI: Willow Creek Press, 1999); Rob Mundle,
Fatal Storm: The Inside Story of the Tragic Sydney-Hobart Race
(Sydney: International Marine McGraw-Hill, 1999); and Debbie Whitmont,
An Extreme Event: The Compelling, True Story of the Tragic 1998 Sydney-Hobart Race
(Sydney: Random House Australia, 1999).

Chapter 7:
Sayonara
—The Big Yank Tank

1
.  Information about Larry Ellison and
Sayonara
was taken from Matthew Symonds, with commentary by Larry Ellison,
Softwar: An Intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle
(New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2003); Mike Wilson,
The Difference between God and Larry Ellison: Inside Oracle Corporation
(New York: Harper, 2003); and Knecht,
Proving Ground
.

2
.  Symonds,
Softwar
, p. 311.

3
.  Ibid., p. 305.

4
.  “I Never Ever Mooned Larry Ellison,”
Sailing World
, March 14, 2003.

5
.  Symonds,
Softwar
, p. 315.

Chapter 8: Uncertain Weather—Buster or Bomb?

1
.  Information from this chapter was derived from sources including
Preliminary Report on the Meteorological Aspects of the 1998 Sydney to Hobart Race
, (Australia: Bureau of Meteorology, February 1999); New South Wales State Coroner's Inquest, 1998 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race—Testimony and Evidence, April 2000; “Storm Warning,”
Vanity Fair
, May 1999; Knecht,
Proving Ground
.

2
.  Speech by John Mooney, Sydney to Hobart Race Awards Ceremony, January 2, 1999.

Chapter 10:
Sayonara
—The Best Professional Sailors on the Planet

1
.  Information for this chapter derived from Knecht,
Proving Ground
, and Symonds,
Softwar
.

2
.  Symonds,
Softwar
, p. 312.

3
.  Knecht,
Proving Ground
, p. 24.

4
.  Symonds,
Softwar
, p. 316.

5
.  Ibid.

Chapter 12:
Sayonara
—Temporary Humility

1
.  Symonds,
Softwar
, p. 317.

2
.  Ibid., p.318.

Chapter 14:
AFR Midnight Rambler—Hard
or Squishy?

1
.  Arthur Psaltis, personal communication.

2
.  Chris Rockell, personal communication.

Chapter 15:
VC Offshore Stand Aside—A
Twist of Fate

1
.  Interview with Ian Moray, Coroner's Inquest.

Chapter 16: Rescue from the Sky—Angels on Winches

1
.  Kristy McAlister, personal communication; Coroner's Inquest.

Chapter 17:
AFR Midnight
Rambler—Hell on White Water

1
.  Interview with Darryl Jones, Coroner's Inquest.

2
.  Statement from Darryl Jones, Coroner's Inquest.

Chapter 19:
Sword of Orion
—Out of Control

1
.  Material from this chapter derived from Coroner's Inquest and interviews with Rob Kothe, Steve Kulmar, and Adam Brown.

Chapter 20: General Mayday—An Official Catastrophe

1
.  Statement from John Hope Gibson, Coroner's Inquest.

Chapter 22:
Sayonara
—Tack the Boat

1
.  Information in this chapter derived from Symonds,
Softwar;
Knecht,
Proving Ground;
and “Storm Warning,”
Vanity Fair
.

2
.  Symonds,
Softwar
, p. 320.

3
.  Knecht,
Proving Ground
, 2nd edition, (LasVegas, NV: Amazon Encore, 2011), p. 257.

4
.  Symonds,
Softwar
, p. 321.

5
.  Ibid.

Chapter 24:
Sayonara
—A Thousand Years

1.  Mundle,
Fatal Storm
.

2
.  Leighton,
A Hard Chance
, p. 241.

3
.  Ibid., p. 243.

4
.  Symonds,
Softwar
, p. 321.

5
.  Ibid.

Chapter 25: Go the
Rambleñ

1
.  Ed Psaltis, personal communication.

PART TWO: CRITICAL STRATEGIES FOR
TEAMWORK AT THE EDGE

Chapter 28: Introduction to the Strategies

1
.  Roger Hickman, personal communication.

Chapter 29: The Research Challenge

1
.  Phil Rosenzweig,
The Halo Effect…and Eight Other Business Delusions That Deceive Managers
(New York: Free Press, 2007).

2
.  Michael Raynor, et al., “Are ‘Great' Companies Just Lucky?”
Harvard Business Review
, April 2009.

3
.  Nassim Nicholas Taleb,
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in the Markets and in Life
(New York: WW Norton & Company, 2001).

4
.  B.F. Skinner, “‘Superstition' in the Pigeon,”
Journal of Experimental Psychology
38:2 (April 1948), pp. 168-172.

5
.  “Medical Studies' Claims Irk Profession's Skeptics,”
Wall Street Journal
, July 12, 1993.

Chapter 31: Team Unity

1
.  Ed Psaltis, personal communication.

2
.  Geoff Smart and Randy Street,
Who: The A Method for Hiring
(New York: Ballantine, 2008), p. 168.

3
.  Psaltis, ibid.

4
.  Smart and Street,
Who
, p. 168.

5
.  Deborah Ancona and Henrik Bresman,
X-Teams: How to Build Teams That Lead, Innovate, and Succeed
(Boston: Harvard Business School, 2007).

Chapter 32: Prepare, Prepare, Prepare

1
.  Michael Bencsik, personal communication.

2
.  Dennis Connor and John Rousmaniere,
No Excuse to Lose: Winning Yacht Races
(New York: WW Norton & Company, 1978).

3
.  Atul Gawande,
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
(New York: Metropolitan Books, 2009).

4
.  Ibid., p. 103.

5
.  Michael Useem,
The Leader's Checklist: 15 Mission-Critical Principles
(Philadelphia: Wharton Digital Press, 2011).

6
.  John Rousmaniere,
The Annapolis Book of Seamanship
, 3rd edition (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999).

7
.  General Richard Natonski, personal communication.

8
.  Richard S. Lowery,
New Dawn: The Battles for Fallujah
(New York: Savas Beatie, 2010).

Chapter 33: Balanced Optimism

1
.  Ed Psaltis, personal communication.

2
.  Malcolm Park, personal communication.

3
.  Kenneth Kamler,
Surviving the Extremes: A Doctor's Journey to the Limits of Human Endurance
(New York: St. Martin's Press, 2004).

Chapter 34: Relentless Learning

1
.  R.B. Shaw and Dennis N.T. Perkins, “Teaching organizations to learn,”
Organization Development Journal
9:4 (1992).

2
.  John Wukovits,
American Commando: Evans Carlson, His WWII Marine Raiders and America's First Special Forces Mission
(New York: Penguin, 2009).

3
.  Neville Crichton, personal communication.

4
.  Malcolm Park, personal communication.

5
.  Vietnam Center and Archive at Texas Tech University.

Chapter 35: Calculated Risk

1
.  Jane Spencer and Cynthia Crossen, “Why Do Americans Believe Danger Lurks Everywhere?”
Wall Street Journal
, April 24, 2003.

2
.  Don Mays, “FurnitureTip-over KillsTwo-Year-Old,”
Consumer Reports
, September 21, 2010;
http://news.consumerreports.org/safety/2010/09/furniture-tip-over-kills-2-year-old-1.html
.

3
.  “How Americans Are Living Dangerously,”
Time
, November 26, 2006.

4
.  Andrew Sutherland, “Why are so many people dying on Everest?”
British Medical Journal
, (2006) 333:452.

5
.  Barry D. Watts,
Clausewitzian Friction and Future War
(Washington, D.C.: McNair Papers/National Defense University, 2004).

6
.  Eric S. Toner,
Creating Situational Awareness: A Systems Approach
, white paper prepared for a workshop hosted by the Institute of Medicine Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Catastrophic Events, June 10, 2009.

7
.  Sharon Begley, “Afraid to Fly after 9/11, Some Took Bigger Risk—in Cars,”
Wall Street Journal
, March 23, 2004.

8
.  Malcolm Gladwell,
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
(New York: Little Brown, 2005).

9
.  Daniel Kahneman,
Thinking, Fast and Slow
(New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2011).

10
.  Frederick Funston and Stephen Wagner,
Surviving and Thriving in Uncertainty: Creating a Risk Intelligent Enterprise
(Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2010).

11
.  Chris Rockell, personal communication.

Chapter 36: Stay Connected

1
.  “Time Is on Your Side,”
http://blog.bitly.com/post/22663850994/time-is-on-your-side
, accessed May 8, 2012.

2
.  Ibid.

3
.  Chris Rockell, personal communication.

4
.  Michael Bencsik, personal communication.

Chapter 37: Step into the Breach

1
.  Ed Psaltis, personal communication.

2
.  Arthur Psaltis, personal communication.

3
.  Ed Psaltis, ibid.

Chapter 38: Eliminate Friction

1
.  Malcolm Park, personal communication, italics added.

2
.  Bob Thomas, personal communication.

3
.  Gordon Livingstone, personal communication.

4
.  Michael Bencsik, personal communication.

5
.  Livingstone, ibid.

Chapter 39: Practiced Resilience

1
.  Samantha Byron, personal communication.

2
.  Bob Thomas, personal communication.

3
.  Ed Psaltis, personal communication.

Chapter 40: Tenacious Creativity

1
.  Ed Psaltis, personal communication.

2
.  Arthur Psaltis, personal communication.

3
.  Tom Barker, personal communication.

A Note to the Skipper

1
.  Rakesh Khurana,
Searching for a Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs
(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004).

2
.  Adrienne Cahalan, personal communication.

3
.  Samantha Byron, personal communication.

4
.  Michael Bencsik, personal communication.

5
.  Ed Psaltis, personal communication.

6
.  T.A. Kolditz,
In Extremis Leadership: Leading as if your Life Depended on It
(San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2007).

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.  Bencsik, ibid.

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