A new model for leadership, by a former Navy captain who transformed his submarine.
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The Santa Fe set records for performance, morale, and retention.
The crew became completely engaged, contributing their full intellectual capacity every day.
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.
Struggling against his own instincts to take control, he instead achieved the vastly more powerful model of giving control to his subordinates, and creating leaders.
Navy\'s traditional leader-follower approach.
Turn the Ship Around! reveals how the Santa Fe skyrocketed from worst to first in the fleet by challenging the U.
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That\'s when Marquet flipped the leaderShip model on its head and pushed for leaderShip at every level.
Marquet realized that while he had been trained for a different submarine, his crew had been trained to do what they were told--a deadly combination.
When he asked why, the answer was: Because you told me to.
Almost immediately, Marquet ran Into trouble when he unknowingly gave an impossible order, and his crew tried to follow it anyway.
Facing the high-stress environment of a sub where there\'s little margin for error, he was determined to reverse the trends he found on the Santa Fe poor morale, poor performance, and the worst retention rate in the fleet.
Trained to give orders in the traditional model of know all-tell all leadership, he faced a new wrinkle when he was shifted to the Santa Fe, a nuclear-powered submarine.
Marquet was a Naval Academy graduate and an experienced officer when selected for submarine command.
Many have applied his insights to their own organizations, creating workplaces where everyone takes responsibility for his or her actions, where Followers grow to become leaders, and where happier teams drive dramatically better results. --FORTUNE Since Turn the Ship Around! was published in 2013, hundreds of thousands of readers have been inspired by former Navy captain David Marquet\'s True story. - USA Today The best how-to manual anywhere for managers on delegating, training, and driving flawless execution.
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He took his Ship from worst to first in its class by challenging the Navy\'s traditional leader-follower approach.
A new model for leadership, by a former Navy captain who transformed his submarine
