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L. David Marquet

Turn the Ship Around

Transform your team by empowering every individual to lead with confidence and purpose.
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What Will You Learn?

Leader-leader models create excellence while leader-follower creates mediocrity – Turn the Ship Around by L. David Marquet shows how giving control paradoxically increases organizational performance. This comprehensive leadership transformation guide and empowerment principles explain:

  • Intent-Based Leadership - Crew states intentions rather than awaiting orders
  • Control-Competence-Clarity - Three pillars required for successful delegation
  • Thinking Out Loud - Verbalize thought processes to develop team judgment
  • I Intend To - Language shift from permission-seeking to ownership-taking

What most summaries miss: Marquet's "deliberate action" prevents empowerment from becoming recklessness through pause-and-vocalize protocols. Transform your Click.Apply.Grow™ leadership: Stop giving orders tomorrow. Ask "What do you intend?" Create competence ladders. Organizations using leader-leader models show 10x engagement scores and promotion rates. Give control. Gain performance.

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About the Author

L. David Marquet is the submarine commander who transformed USS Santa Fe from worst to best by giving control away.

Naval Academy graduate commanding nuclear submarine with revolutionary leader-leader model. Turned Santa Fe from last to first in fleet rankings. Graduates became 10x more submarine commanders than average. His Intent-Based Leadership serves Fortune 500s and governments globally.

What sets Marquet apart: He tested leadership theories 300 feet underwater where mistakes are fatal—ultimate leadership laboratory.

Organizations implementing leader-leader see 50% improvement in employee engagement. Teams report 3x faster decision-making with distributed authority.

The commander who sank command-and-control.

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