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

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Well, once you've read Dave's experience and reflected on his "questions to ask" you realize it is a difficult and turbulent, but highly rewarding and gratifying journey that pays off in the long term. We simplify the concepts and mechanisms from the books into 1-minute bite-sized pieces on our YouTube channel because the reminders help people. Taking care of your people does not mean protecting them from the consequences of their own behavior. The first step he took in his early days on the ship was to remove the requirement for the Captain to be the final authority to sign-off shore leave (having also been signed off my every intermediate level in the chain of command) and pass the final authority to a sailor’s direct superior. His ideas and lessons are invaluable to anyone who wants to build an organization that will outlive them.

The book is a step by step guide of changes from top-down management approach in organisation like US Navy. Si esto lo acoplamos con claridad en la visión y en lo que estamos intentando conseguir estratégicamente, tenemos un buen plan para que una organización pueda llegar a sus objetivos y tengamos equipos contentos y motivados.Therefore, I would recommend it to most people simply for the exposure to the concepts and the examples of how they were applied.

His writing style is incredibly well structured and meticulous -- all the examples work really well for his story.Hay muchos video en youtube y demás en los que se puede ver cómo el propio David Marquet explica su filosofía y que se pueden estudiar a modo de recordatorio o también como aperitivo para el propio libro. but in fact author's ideas are applicable in different contexts, sometimes with re-adjustments (SKIN IN THE GAME! Leader-leader structures are significantly more resilient, and they do not rely on the designated leader always being right.

Overall, it was quite a tedious read/listen, even though most of the ideas were quite clever and with some cherry picking and altering, could be applied to many scenarios. Captain Marquet takes you through his life of learning how to lead, and presents you with a winning formula: not leader-follower, but leader-leader. Enhance opportunities for informal communication - encourage team members to think out loud as a mechanism for control and organizational clarity. That said, it does illustrate his principle well - when there was a chain of sign-off those lower down the chain would then take no real responsibility for or ownership of the decision and the Captain would be too far from the situation and not really best utilised to sign off 150 people’s leave. Changing the processes to focus on the outcomes and goals rather than process/method made a huge difference.Yet another book on leadership, filled with generic statements focused on WHAT (which is quite straightforward) instead of HOW (the hard part . Aside from my interest in pre 20th century piracy on the high seas (more of social class/mobility angle here) - I haven't really read any books about life on boats or submarines.

This turned into an opportunity for 2-way feedback and the end result was that his officers were able to achieve those goals by the end of their terms.

The ideas and concepts the book brings up are quite interesting and sound like they would be quite useful to many organisations. David Marquet has written an incredibly clear and easy to understand book - that happens to be about submarines and their crews. The outcome was revolutionary – within a few short months, the crew of the Santa Fe went from worst to first.