L. David Marquet’s Turn the Ship Around! is available on Audible as a 6 hrs 26 mins unabridged audiobook, narrated by L. David Marquet.
Publisher’s Summary
“One of the 12 best business books of all time…. Timeless principles of empowering leadership.” – USA Today
“The best how-to manual anywhere for managers on delegating, training, and driving flawless execution.” —FORTUNE
Marquet was a Naval Academy graduate and an experienced officer when selected for submarine command. Trained to give orders in the traditional model of “know all–tell all” leadership, he faced a new wrinkle when he was shifted to the Santa Fe, a nuclear-powered submarine. Facing the high-stress environment of a sub where there’s little margin for error, he was determined to reverse the trends he found on the Santa Fe: poor morale, poor performance, and the worst retention rate in the fleet.
Marquet ran into trouble when he unknowingly gave an impossible order, and his crew tried to follow it anyway. When he asked why, the answer was: “Because you told me to.” Marquet realized that while he had been trained for a different submarine, his crew had been trained to do what they were told—a deadly combination.
That’s when Marquet flipped the leadership model on its head and pushed for leadership at every level. Turn the Ship Around! reveals how the Santa Fe skyrocketed from worst to first in the fleet by challenging the U.S. Navy’s traditional leader-follower approach. Struggling against his own instincts to take control, he instead achieved the vastly more powerful model of giving control to his subordinates, and creating leaders.
Whether you need a major change of course or just a tweak of the rudder, you can apply Marquet’s methods to turn your own ship around.
Audiobook Details
- Narrated by: L. David Marquet
- Length: 6 hrs 26 mins
- Publisher: Penguin Audio
- Release year: 2021
- Audible category: Biographies & Memoirs / Military & War / Business & Careers
Listener Ratings
Turn the Ship Around! holds an average listener rating of 4.7/5 from 1773 Audible ratings.
On Audible, ratings for this title break down into narration performance and story separately:
- Performance (narration): 4.6/5
- Story: 4.7/5
- 5-star ratings: 80% of all ratings
What Audible Listeners Are Saying
5/5 stars — “Solid”
No fluff, just quality insights worth contemplating and deploying into a system or team of teams— anthony, Audible listener
5/5 stars — “Great framework for individual contributors as well as managers”
I read this as an individual contributor at a large company, looking to take more autonomy where I can in my role. This have me great ideas and a framework that I will use to “manage up,” and encourage leadership to hand over more of the reigns to me and my peers.— Purchaser, Audible listener
5/5 stars — “Outstanding read for becoming a trusted leader”
These are ideas that I easily absorbed and became my own. I look forward to reading pieces of it with my 12yo son tomorrow.— John Brislin, Audible listener
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