Turn The Ship Around, L David Marquet

 

David Marquet was on the command path in the US navy and early in that career path he was a watch supervisor on the USS Sunfish. The captain of that ship had an easy leadership style he trusted his subordinates to be competent at their roles and to give status reports and go up the chain when they felt they needed to. It created a nice and harmonious atmosphere conducive of working together as a team each is supporting the other. 

For his next posting he was placed on the USS Will Roger’s with a leadership that was at the complete other end of the spectrum the captain would micro manage everyone and the atmosphere was harsh and made people feel they had to protect themselves. This also created stress within the team which impacted other areas on the ship. 

When he was given his own command the author wanted to take his lesson from the USS Sunfish and expand on them to go from the traditional naval leadership pattern of leader - follower to a leader - leader patten. 

His first command was a ship that was failing it was considered to be the worst in the squadron and a joke within the navy. Using the lessons learned on USS Sunfish he wanted to expand and make everyone on board a leader and accountable, there were mistakes along the way but essentially this book is a case study in building a bottom up leadership structure overcoming the pit falls and early learning obstacles to create an efficient structure that’s also safer, streamlined and easily adapted to other situations. 

If you’re a leader in your business this should be high on your reading list, there are some good lessons here and some important principles that we can all learn from.

Pick it up it’s just over 200 pages and a very easy read it’s broken down in to key lessons with bullet points to expand on. 

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