Turn the Ship Around!

A True Story of Building Leaders by Breaking the Rules

L. David Marquet, David Marquet

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English

Portfolio
26 September 2013

Naval forces & warfare; Economics & Business; Management: leadership & motivation

"""Leadership should mean giving control rather than taking control and

creating leaders rather than forging followers.""

David Marquet, an

experienced Navy officer, was used to giving orders. As newly appointed captain

of the USS Santa Fe, a nuclear-powered submarine, he was responsible for

more than a hundred sailors, deep in the sea. In this high-stress environment,

where there is no margin for error, it was crucial his men did their job and did

it well. But the ship was dogged by poor morale, poor performance, and the worst

retention in the fleet.

Marquet acted like any other captain until, one

day, he unknowingly gave an impossible order, and his crew tried to follow it

anyway. When he asked why the order wasn't challenged, the answer was ""Because

you told me to."" Marquet realized he was leading in a culture of followers, and

they were all in danger unless they fundamentally changed the way they did

things.

That's when Marquet took matters into his own hands and pushed

for leadership at every level. Turn the Ship Around! is the true story of

how the Santa Fe skyrocketed from worst to first in the fleet by

challenging the U.S. Navy's traditional leader-follower approach. Struggling

against his own instincts to take control, he instead achieved the vastly more

powerful model of giving control.

Before long, each member of Marquet's

crew became a leader and assumed responsibility for everything he did, from

clerical tasks to crucial combat decisions. The crew became fully engaged,

contributing their full intellectual capacity every day, and the Santa Fe

started winning awards and promoting a highly disproportionate number of

officers to submarine command.

No matter your business or position, you

can apply Marquet's radical guidelines to turn your own ship around. The payoff:

a workplace where everyone around you is taking responsibility for their

actions, where people are healthier and happier, where everyone is a leader."

By: L. David Marquet, David Marquet
Imprint: Portfolio
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 147mm, Spine: 250mm
Weight: 400g
ISBN: 9781591846406
ISBN 10: 1591846404
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 26 September 2013
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

A top graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, L. David Marquet commanded the nuclear-powered, fast-attack submarine USS Santa Fe from 1999 to 2001. Santa Fe earned numerous awards for being the most improved ship in the Pacific and the most combat-effective ship in the squadron. Since leaving the Navy he has worked with businesses nationwide as a leadership consultant. David also teaches graduate level leadership at Columbia University. He is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and lives in Florida with his wife, Jane.

Reviews for Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Building Leaders by Breaking the Rules

'I don't know of a finer model of this kind of empowering leadership than Captain Marquet. And in the pages that follow you will find a model for your pathway.' --Stephen R. Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People 'To say I'm a fan of David Marquet would be an understatement.... I'm a fully fledged groupie. He is the kind of leader who comes around only once a generation. He is the kind of leader who doesn't just know how to lead, he knows how to build leaders. His ideas and lessons are invaluable to anyone who wants to build an organization that will outlive them.' -- Simon Sinek, optimist and author of Start with Why 'How do we release the intellect and initiative of each member of the organization toward a common purpose? Here's the answer: With fascinating storytelling and a deep understanding of what motivates and inspires. David Marquet provides leaders in the military, business, and education a powerful vehicle that will delight, provoke, and encourage them to act.' -- Michael P. Peters, president of the St. John's College, Santa Fe 'I owe a lot to Captain David Marquet ... not only for turning the Santa Fe around during some REALLY bad times but I learned many lessons on leadership from him that have been invaluable in my post-Navy life. I preach the three legs (control, competence, clarity) of Leader-Leader everyday to empower my people and move the decisions to where the information lives.... I used these principles to turn around the GE Dallas Generator Repair Department, which was in crisis when I arrived in 2010 and now is the best Generator Repair Department in the GE Network.... Now I am tasked with turning around the Dallas Steam Turbine Repair Department....' -- Adam McAnally, Steam Turbine Cell Leader at the GE Dallas Service Center and former crewmember, USS Santa Fe 'This terrific read actually provides new and valuable insights into how to lead. And nothing important gets done