Turn Your Ship Around! A Workbook for Implementing Intent-Based Leadership in Your Organization

Turn Your Ship Around! A Workbook serves as a practical companion guide to David Marquet's leadership book Turn Your Ship Around! The workbook provides exercises, assessments, and implementation tools for organizations seeking to adopt intent-based leadership principles. Through structured activities and real-world examples, readers work through the process of shifting from leader-follower to leader-leader dynamics. The text breaks down complex organizational change into manageable steps focused on control, competence, and clarity. Marquet draws from his experience as commander of the USS Santa Fe to illustrate how leaders can empower their teams and create sustainable excellence. The workbook format allows readers to document their progress and create customized action plans for their specific contexts. At its core, this workbook explores the relationship between organizational structure and human potential, demonstrating how deliberate changes in leadership approach can transform both individual performance and team results.

Readers describe this workbook as a practical companion to Marquet's original "Turn Your Ship Around!" book. Many note it provides concrete exercises and worksheets to implement the leadership concepts. Liked: - Step-by-step implementation guide with real examples - Questions force deeper thinking about leadership style - Clear structure for organizational change - Specific scenarios and solutions Disliked: - Requires reading the original book first - Some exercises feel repetitive - Limited value as standalone resource - Would benefit from more case studies One reader noted: "The workbook helped translate theory into practice at our company, though we had to modify some exercises for our industry." Ratings: Goodreads: 4.2/5 (127 ratings) Amazon: 4.5/5 (116 reviews) A common theme in reviews is that the workbook works best when used alongside team discussions rather than as individual study. Several readers mentioned success using it for management training programs.

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🚢 Before writing "Turn Your Ship Around!", David Marquet commanded the USS Santa Fe, transforming it from the worst-performing submarine in the fleet to the best, earning the ship multiple awards for operational excellence. 👥 The Intent-Based Leadership model developed by Marquet has been implemented by companies like Google, Intel, and Ritz-Carlton to improve organizational performance and employee engagement. 📘 This workbook was created as a companion to Marquet's first book "Turn the Ship Around!", after readers repeatedly requested practical tools to implement the concepts in their own organizations. 🎓 Marquet graduated top of his class at the U.S. Naval Academy and later served as Chairman of the Board of Advisors of the Naval Academy's Leadership Conference. 💡 The core principle of Intent-Based Leadership—pushing authority to where the information is—was born from a crisis moment when Marquet realized he'd given an impossible order because he didn't know his submarine's updated control panel configuration.