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Review : Great book on leadership - so sayeth another sub commander
Full disclosure - David Marquet and I are U.S. Naval Academy classmates. I didn't know David back then but interestingly enough we were both in command of improved 688 fast attack submarines at the same time, David on Santa Fe in the Pacific and me on USS Toledo (SSN-769) in the Atlantic. Also interestingly I actually used some of the techniques David describes in this book (for example, having your people come up with a plan and say "I intend to" rather than "Request permission to" or even worse when I arrived on board Toledo, "What do you want to do about x, y, or z?") My problem was that I didn't have a comprehensive SYSTEM like David lays out here. As a result my use of techniques such as David describes was haphazard and ad hoc. I am convinced that if I had employed the complete system David describes I would have been much more successful, AND YOU CAN BE TOO. If you lead anyone in any line of work you owe it to yourself to read this book, employ its strategies and then watch...
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Description : “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...
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