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Jun 14, 2015
Sergey Shishkin
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it was amazing
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If a nuclear submarine could gain leadership at all levels by giving control, building competence and achieving organizational clarity, your enterprise has no excuse to continue exploit people in a command & control environment like it's still 1900's.
Great book with inspiring stories, illustrating the leader-leader model step by step. Highly recommended to read for people who are in charge of other people, as well as people who have other people in charge of them. ...more
Great book with inspiring stories, illustrating the leader-leader model step by step. Highly recommended to read for people who are in charge of other people, as well as people who have other people in charge of them. ...more
Marquet takes us on his journey at the helm of the USS Santa Fe submarine and a transformation from Leader-Follower to Leader-Leader management. Having read quite a bit on empowering management styles there was a lot here that you can find elsewhere, though David does so in a very story friendly format. Noticeably different is the attention to detail around communication. Specifically around the words of "intention" for empowerment. I "intend to, i plan, i will, we will, etc" do some action. Com
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Update 28.12.2017: still a great, inspiring read
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Resonates a lot with me. A perfect description of how I think modern organisations should work. Build leaders, not followers. Somewhat funny and unexpected that this originated in the military
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Resonates a lot with me. A perfect description of how I think modern organisations should work. Build leaders, not followers. Somewhat funny and unexpected that this originated in the military
This is a great book. In fact, this is my "book of the year 2016". There are 2 sides going hand in hand in this text. The first is the story of the commander of the USS Alabama, how he prepared a poor, demoralized crew for deployment making it the best ranked among the US submarines. The second is the lessons learned about how to change the way to command the crew, how to stop giving order and become a great leader that grew up leaders ! This is a coaching book. A great, modern one. And it's a n
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Very motivating book! David's phrase "If the leader-leader model can work on board a nuclear submarine, it can work for you" draws a bottom line under all discussions about inability to change the org because "we're too unique".
It also contains a collection of tools for a change leader which can be applied (sometimes easily, sometimes not) in many situations. ...more
It also contains a collection of tools for a change leader which can be applied (sometimes easily, sometimes not) in many situations. ...more
May 22, 2013
Astrid Claessen
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really liked it
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agile-lean-etc,
business-books
Oct 23, 2013
Trish
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Jan 09, 2016
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