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"Leadership should signify giving control alternatively than taking control and creating market leaders alternatively than forging followers." David Marquet, an experienced Navy officer, was used to offering orders. As recently appointed captain of the USS Santa Fe, a nuclear-powered submarine, he was accountable for more than a hundred sailors, deep in the ocean. In this high-stress environment, where there is no margin for error, it was crucial his men performed their job and achieved it well. But the dispatch was dogged by poor morale, poor performance, and the most severe retention in the fleet. Marquet acted like any other captain until, 1 day, he unknowingly gave an impossible order, and his team tried to follow it anyhow. When he asked why the order wasn't challenged, the response was, "Because you told me to." Marquet noticed he was leading in a culture of followers, plus they were all in peril unless they fundamentally altered the way they performed things. That's when Marquet had taken concerns into his own hands and forced for management at every level. Convert the Ship Around! is the real story of how the Santa Fe skyrocketed from most severe to first in the fleet by challenging the U.S. Navy's traditional leader-follower approach. Struggling against his own instincts to assume control, he instead achieved the significantly more powerful style of giving control. In a short time, each member of Marquet's team became a head and assumed responsibility for everything he performed, from clerical jobs to crucial fight decisions. The team became fully engaged, contributing their full intellectual capacity every day, and the Santa Fe started winning honors and promoting an extremely disproportionate variety of officers to submarine control. Regardless of your business or position, you can apply Marquet's radical guidelines to carefully turn your own dispatch around. The payoff: a work place where everyone around you is taking responsibility for his or her actions, where people are healthier and happier, where everyone is a leader.
