Greater Cheyenne Chamber of Commerce Business Journal Q2 2014 | Page 39

ABOUT “TURN THE
SHIP AROUND!”

Originally published on www.davidmarquet.com

How would you like to work in a place where
everyone around you is totally engaged and
contributing their full intellectual capacity — a
place where people are healthier and happier
because they have more control over their
work – a place where everyone is a leader?

for everything they did, from clerical tasks
to crucial combat decisions. By embedding
goodness in the practices and the people,
Santa Fe continued to win awards and
promoted a highly disproportionate number
of officers to submarine command.

A nuclear powered submarine would seem
an unlikely place for such a thing to happen.
Especially the USS Santa Fe – dogged by
poor morale, poor performance, and the worst
retention in the fleet, until David Marquet took
command.

Turn the Ship Around! presents clear
mechanisms to help you apply this winning
model in your organization. Follow Marquet’s
practical steps, for example:

Turn the Ship Around! is the gripping story
of what happened next – where he took the
ship from worst to first by challenging the U.S.
Navy’s traditional leader-follower approach
and instead implementing his own framework
of leader-leader. In doing so, he struggled
against his own instincts to “take control,
attract followers” in order to achieve the vastly
more powerful “give control, create leaders.”
The results revolutionized the field of
leadership – as each member of his crew
became a leader and assumed responsibility

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Releasing proactivity with “I
intend to…”
• Reversing a demoralized culture
• Using deliberate action to
enhance teamwork and minimize
errors
• Eliminating top-down monitoring
systems
• Embedding learning in everything
the organization does
No matter what your business, and no matter
where you are in the organizational chart,
you will benefit from the leadership approach
developed onboard the USS Santa Fe and
detailed in this book.

First 90 people to
register for the Military Affairs
Leadership Luncheon will receive
a free copy of the book!
Q1 2014 BUSINESS JOURNAL

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