Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders
How a submarine captain transformed leadership by pushing authority to information
"Don't move information to authority, move authority to information."
— L. David Marquet
My Review
Marquet's transformation of a nuclear submarine from worst to best in the fleet demonstrates distributed control in action. His 'leader-leader' model is organizational design based on biological principles of distributed decision-making.
Why It Matters
The best demonstration of how distributed control outperforms centralized command. Marquet's model aligns with biological concepts of distributed decision-making in complex systems.
Key Ideas
- Move authority to where the information is
- Leader-leader beats leader-follower
- Give control, create leaders
- Competence and clarity enable distributed authority
How It Connects to This Framework
Book 7's centralized vs. distributed control chapter directly parallels Marquet's framework.
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