Rudderless
adjective
Lacking a clear sense of control or direction.
Without their manager, the team seemed rudderless.
Often appears as...
- rudderless team
- rudderless organization
adjective
Lacking a clear sense of control or direction.
Without their manager, the team seemed rudderless.
Often appears as...
- rudderless team
- rudderless organization
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Pro Tip 1/3Leadership Context
Use 'rudderless' to describe a situation where leadership is absent or ineffective.
After the CEO retired, the company felt rudderless.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional Tone
'Rudderless' often implies a sense of anxiety or concern about lack of direction.
He wandered the streets, rudderless and confused, after losing his job.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Connotation
The word 'rudderless' carries a negative tone, suggesting problems and instability.
The rudderless school administration struggled to address the students' needs.
Pro Tip 1/3Leadership Context
Use 'rudderless' to describe a situation where leadership is absent or ineffective.
After the CEO retired, the company felt rudderless.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional Tone
'Rudderless' often implies a sense of anxiety or concern about lack of direction.
He wandered the streets, rudderless and confused, after losing his job.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Connotation
The word 'rudderless' carries a negative tone, suggesting problems and instability.
The rudderless school administration struggled to address the students' needs.
Pro Tip 1/3Leadership Context
Use 'rudderless' to describe a situation where leadership is absent or ineffective.
After the CEO retired, the company felt rudderless.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional Tone
'Rudderless' often implies a sense of anxiety or concern about lack of direction.
He wandered the streets, rudderless and confused, after losing his job.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Connotation
The word 'rudderless' carries a negative tone, suggesting problems and instability.
The rudderless school administration struggled to address the students' needs.
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John Marshall: 3...
into language that we all intuitively get. That's the first understanding. But understanding without relevance is rudderless. So the second key then is to make climate feel like something that matters to you, to your life, individually and personally.
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John Marshall: 3...
into language that we all intuitively get. That's the first understanding. But understanding without relevance is rudderless. So the second key then is to make climate feel like something that matters to you, to your life, individually and personally.
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Quote examples
John Kasich
American Politician
It's not trickle down economics. The problem that the president has is that he's rudderless on the economy. I mean, he doesn't quite know what to do. It's a wake-up on Monday and try to figure it out. It takes time to turn a supertanker, so you need to know where you need to go.
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Klaus Schwab
German Economist
Europe has never had a single or unified voice in world affairs: a common foreign policy. It has often appeared to be rudderless and unable to make quick decisions when faced with economic crises, presenting instead an image of division and hopelessness.
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Jon Hamm
American Actor
When you're a kid, you're just not equipped to deal with some of the stuff that life brings you. It's why you have parents. And then, when you don't, there better be somebody who fills in that gap, or you're going to be rudderless for a while.
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George Pelecanos
American Author
I was really rudderless at one point my life. And once I started reading books, then I got the idea that maybe I could become a writer. I had a goal. And every day when I got up, there was a reason.
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Les Dawson
English Comedian
I need to give affection and love, because without that, I wither. I need to give that love to someone. Without that, I'm rudderless.
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Grant Heslov
American Actor
There are times when you work with directors on set, and things are a bit rudderless, and those can be good directors.
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John Lydon
English Musician
I hate death; it takes people away from you. You're left feeling rudderless.
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John Kasich
American Politician
It's not trickle down economics. The problem that the president has is that he's rudderless on the economy. I mean, he doesn't quite know what to do. It's a wake-up on Monday and try to figure it out. It takes time to turn a supertanker, so you need to know where you need to go.
Quote examples
Klaus Schwab
German Economist
Europe has never had a single or unified voice in world affairs: a common foreign policy. It has often appeared to be rudderless and unable to make quick decisions when faced with economic crises, presenting instead an image of division and hopelessness.
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Jon Hamm
American Actor
When you're a kid, you're just not equipped to deal with some of the stuff that life brings you. It's why you have parents. And then, when you don't, there better be somebody who fills in that gap, or you're going to be rudderless for a while.
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George Pelecanos
American Author
I was really rudderless at one point my life. And once I started reading books, then I got the idea that maybe I could become a writer. I had a goal. And every day when I got up, there was a reason.
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Les Dawson
English Comedian
I need to give affection and love, because without that, I wither. I need to give that love to someone. Without that, I'm rudderless.
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Grant Heslov
American Actor
There are times when you work with directors on set, and things are a bit rudderless, and those can be good directors.
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John Lydon
English Musician
I hate death; it takes people away from you. You're left feeling rudderless.
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