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His ideas and lessons are invaluable to anyone who wants to build an organization that will outlive them. Taking care of your people does not mean protecting them from the consequences of their own behavior. the “best how-to manual anywhere for managers on delegating, training, and driving flawless execution. this was fantastic because instead of the chief reading off the process while everyone else's eyes glazed over, the person who would be doing the task would identify the steps that he would be taking and the others would certify that process was correct (technical competence). I recognized good leadership practices I had adopted or experienced and I found myself deepening my understanding of why they work or had worked.
The book is a fast read, but the approaches he described are not simple or necessarily easy to apply. Aside from my interest in pre 20th century piracy on the high seas (more of social class/mobility angle here) - I haven't really read any books about life on boats or submarines. No matter your business or position, you can apply Marquet's approach to create a workplace where everyone takes responsibility for their actions, people are healthier and happier — and everyone is a leader. 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. Si esto lo acoplamos con claridad en la visión y en lo que estamos intentando conseguir estratégicamente, tenemos un buen plan para que una organización pueda llegar a sus objetivos y tengamos equipos contentos y motivados.With the holiday decision an obvious concern of the change in approach was that a sailor’s immediate supervisor might not know the overall context in granting leave (say, was an inspection coming up that might require all hands) but the solution to that is to push that context down.
The language he uses is very "motivational speaker" and a lot of the anecdotes seem wrapped up a little too nicely, but I think his principles are sound and this is definitely an interesting approach to people management. The best book I've read so far on creating a culture of engagement and empowering an organization working in complex environments. The full book itself I found a little dull packed as it is with details of Marquet’s actual experiences with the Santa Fe and its crew, relayed with lots of navy jargon and acronyms (not sure I really needed to know that fresh fruit and vegetables are known as FFV). The details about life on the submarine are sometimes a bit more than my interest can tolerate but overall the message about process and changing the structure from leader-follower to leader-leader is crystal clear.David Marquet nos lleva por el viaje que recorrió en lo que era el peor de los submarinos de la Armada estadounidense y su transformación en el mejor en poco más de 3 años. Indeed my biggest take away from the book is the need to cascade context, to push information down that people need to make good decisions, and then let the decisions come up, rather than the other way round. He uses the story of a ship under his command and how this philosophy and techniques helped the ship move from amongst the worst in the fleet to amongst the best. As noted in the introduction, the core belief is that we can all be leaders - and the best way to get to that is to have a leader who can help identify the shared goals and vision for the team, and then let them do their work, providing feedback on what is working best as a way to attain excellence (vs avoiding mistakes).
He realized he was leading in a culture of followers, and they were all in danger unless they fundamentally changed the way they did things. business management professional, and editor/blogger at Command Performance Leadership (commandperformanceleadership.When the performance of a unit goes down after an officer leaves, it is taken as a sign that he was a good leader, not that he was ineffective in training his people properly.
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