Turn the Ship Around! A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders

<b>“One of the 12 best business books of all time…. Timeless principles of empowering leadership.” –<i> USA Today<br><br></i>"The best how-to manual anywhere for managers on delegating, training, and driving flawless execution.” <i>—FORTUNE</i></b><br><br>Marquet was a Naval Academy graduate and an experienced officer when selected for submarine command. 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 <i>Santa Fe</i>, a nuclear-powered submarine. 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 <i>Santa Fe</i>: poor morale, poor performance, and the worst retention rate in the fleet. <br><br>Marquet ran into trouble when he unknowingly gave an impossible order, and his crew tried to follow it anyway. When he asked why, the answer was: “Because you told me to.” 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.<br><br>That’s when Marquet flipped the leadership model on its head and pushed for leadership at every level. <i>Turn the Ship Around!</i> reveals how the <i>Santa Fe </i>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 to his subordinates, and creating leaders.<br><br>Whether you need a major change of course or just a tweak of the rudder, you can apply Marquet’s methods to turn your own ship around.