L. David Marquet, a top graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, commanded the nuclear-powered, fast-attack submarine USS Santa Fe from 1999 to 2001. Since retiring from the Navy he has worked with businesses nationwide as a leadership consultant. He gives presentations around the world about his acclaimed first book, Turn the Ship Around: A True Story of Turning Leaders Into Followers.
I don't know of a finer model of this kind of empowering leadership
than Captain Marquet. And in the pages that follow you will find a
model for your pathway.
*Stephen R. Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective
People*
To say I'm a fan of David Marquet would be an understatement....
I'm a fully fledged groupie. He is the kind of leader who comes
around only once a generation. He is the kind of leader who doesn't
just know how to lead, he knows how to build leaders. His ideas and
lessons are invaluable to anyone who wants to build an organization
that will outlive them.
*Simon Sinek, optimist and author of Start with Why*
How do we release the intellect and initiative of each member of
the organization toward a common purpose? Here's the answer: With
fascinating storytelling and a deep understanding of what motivates
and inspires. David Marquet provides leaders in the military,
business, and education a powerful vehicle that will delight,
provoke, and encourage them to act.
*Michael P. Peters, president of the St. John's College, Santa
Fe*
I owe a lot to Captain David Marquet ... not only for turning the
Santa Fe around during some REALLY bad times but I learned many
lessons on leadership from him that have been invaluable in my
post-Navy life. I preach the three legs (control, competence,
clarity) of Leader-Leader everyday to empower my people and move
the decisions to where the information lives.... I used these
principles to turn around the GE Dallas Generator Repair
Department, which was in crisis when I arrived in 2010 and now is
the best Generator Repair Department in the GE Network.... Now I am
tasked with turning around the Dallas Steam Turbine Repair
Department....
*Adam McAnally, Steam Turbine Cell Leader at the GE Dallas Service
Center and former crewmember, USS Santa Fe*
This terrific read actually provides new and valuable insights into
how to lead. And nothing important gets done without leadership.
Captain Marquet takes you through his life of learning how to lead,
and presents you with a winning formula: not leader-follower, but
leader-leader. It's about leading by getting others to take
responsibility--and like it. It works for business, politics, and
life.
*Leslie H. Gelb, president emeritus of the Council on Foreign
Relations, a member of several business boards, and a former
columnist for The New York Times*
It's the Hunt for Red October meets Harvard Business School.Turn
the Ship Around! is the consummate book on leadership for the
Information Age--where unleashing knowledge workers' intellectual
capital is pivotal in optimizing organizational performance: from
maximizing market share and minimizing customer churn to improving
margins. Capt. Marquet's thesis is a complete paradigm shift in
leadership philosophy. This new approach to leadership is
applicable in all industries and across all corporate functions. If
you're an Organizational Behavior or Leadership expert or
enthusiast this book can have a substantial impact on you and your
organization s ability to meet its goals.
*Joe DeBono, Founder and President of MBA Corps and Merrill Lynch
Wealth Manager*
David Marquet's message in Turn the Ship Around! inspires the
empowerment of engaged people and leadership at all levels. He
encourages leaders to release energy, intellect, and passion in
everyone around them. Turn the Ship Around! challenges the paradigm
of the hierarchical organization by revealing the process to tear
down pyramids, create a flat organization, and to develop leaders,
not followers.
*Dale R. Wilson, Sr., business management professional, and
editor/blogger at Command Performance Leadership
(commandperformanceleadership.wordpress.com)*
This is the story of Captain David Marquet's unprecedented
experiment in the most rigid of environments on the Santa Fe, a
U.S. Navy nuclear-powered submarine. He had the courage to operate
counter-culture, reengineering the very definition of leadership
accepted by the U.S. Navy for as long as it has existed. He took
huge risk to do this. The outcome was revolutionary - within a few
short months, the crew of the Santa Fe went from worst to first. In
today's information age, Human Capital is our most precious
resource. It is the 21stCentury weapon of choice. Captain David
Marquet's experiment in leadership has far greater application to
the entire business world. This is thought leadership.
*Charlie Kim, Founder & CEO of Next Jump, Inc.*
Leaders and managers face an increasingly complex world, where
precise execution, teamwork and enabling of talent are competitive
advantages. David Marquet provides a blue print, along with
real-life examples and implementation mechanisms. Anyone who is
charged with leading and making a difference needs to read
this.
*John Cooper, President and CEO, Invesco Distributors*
David Marquet's book discusses 'successful motivation' that
provided his people the energy to overcome difficult obstacles. The
values that he imbued in his folks provided a 'burst of energy'
that positively energized them by satisfying their needs for
achievement, providing appropriate recognition, providing a sense
of belonging, developing self-esteem, permitting a feeling of
control, and permitting an ability to live up to appropriate
standards. This type of leadership energizes the work force and
allows senior management to 'paint the future and light a path that
takes the entire team to it.' This is a must read for all who
desire good moral influence on the work force!
*Vice Admiral Al Konetzni, (USN, ret.) Former Pacific Fleet
submarine commander.*
The legacy of a Commanding Officer, or the leader of any
organization, is how well the organization performs after he/she
departs and the subsequent motivation, success and institutional
contribution of those next generation leaders trained and
developed. Read Turn the Ship Around! and you will learn how to
build an enduring high performer, where people can't wait to get to
work.
*Admiral Thomas B. Fargo (USN, ret.) Former Commander U.S. Pacific
Command Chairman, Huntington Ingalls Industries*
What I learned from and with David Marquet is that developing a
bottom-up, Leader-Leader culture produces highly empowered people
and highly effective teams. It worked on a nuclear submarine and it
worked in the mountains of Afghanistan. That said, cultivating a
Leader-Leader culture is much easier said than done because you
must overturn almost everything people grow up thinking and
learning about leadership.
*Captain (sel) Dave Adams, USN, Former Weapons Officer, USS Santa
Fe, Khost Province PRT commander, Commanding Officer, USS Santa
Fe*
Captain Marquet's compelling leadership journey inspires each of us
to imagine a world where every human being is intellectually
engaged and fully committed to solving our toughest challenges. If
it can be done on a nuclear submarine, it can be done everywhere.
Turn the Ship Around! delivers a brilliant message.
*Liz Wiseman, Author of Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make
Everyone Smarter*
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