241: The Way to Turn Followers Into Leaders, with David Marquet

Coaching for Leaders

Dave Stachowiak

Education, Business, Management, Self-improvement, Careers

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2016

⏱️ 35 minutes

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David Marquet: Turn the Ship Around! David Marquet, author of Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders*, is the former captain of the USS Santa Fe. Under his leadership, the Santa Fe moved from being the worst performing ship in the Navy to the best. David teaches us what his officers and him did to make this happen -- and how to turn followers into leaders. Quotes Good leaders give good orders, but great leaders don’t give any orders because they’ve built a team that doesn’t need to be told what to do. —David Marquet Too many times leaders think the problem is “out there,” but the real problem is in their own head. —David Marquet You only need to do one thing to engage employees: give them decision-making authority. —David Marquet By treating people like leaders, you build more leaders. —David Marquet The concept is act your way into new thinking, not think your way into new actions. —David Marquet Discover More Activate your free membership for full access to the entire library of interviews since 2011, searchable by topic.

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0:00.0	Like me, you probably come to this show each week with the mindset of how to become a more effective leader yourself.
0:08.0	But today's guest is a former nuclear submarine commander and has a different message for us and that message is
0:15.3	it's not about you. On today's episode how to turn followers into leaders.
0:21.1	This is coaching for, episode 241.
0:24.8	Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential.
0:29.8	Greetings to you from Orange County, California. This is coaching for leaders and I'm your
0:38.8	host Dave Stahoviac. Leaders aren't born, they're made and this weekly show will give
0:45.9	you access to the best thinkers, resources, and actions to develop your
0:51.9	leadership skills.
0:53.0	And not only do we have the best thinkers on the show,
0:55.7	but we also have folks who have taken real practical action
1:00.6	to put practical leadership in a place and produce great results not only for the
1:05.6	organization but for the people involved in the organization and today's guest
1:10.0	is just a fabulous example of that.
1:12.6	He's got a great story and the story is not just about organizational results,
1:17.1	but it's a story about people and what great things people have done.
1:21.5	And I first came across David Marquet from one of our mastermind
1:25.4	members who's used a number of David's principles in order to lead his
1:30.0	organization and David was a captain in the United States Navy of the submarine
1:35.2	USS Santa Fe and at the time he assumed command it was the worst performing
1:40.4	submarine in the fleet. Under his leadership it achieved the highest
1:44.6	retention and operational standards in the Navy. When Stephen Covey, the
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