Turn the Ship Around: Leadership Analysis and Critical Review

This report provides a critical analysis of David Marquet's book, 'Turn the Ship Around!', focusing on the author's experience of leadership transformation within a submarine. It explores the application of various leadership models, including leader-leader and leader-follower approaches, and theories such as transformational, participative, and situational leadership. The analysis highlights the development of leadership standards, the importance of collaboration, and the use of radical management principles for personal leadership development. The report critiques the book's emphasis on empowering human resources to overcome challenges and recommends its use for contemporary leaders seeking to improve their skills and transform their organizations. It references key leadership theories and principles detailed in the book, emphasizing their practical applications in real-world scenarios.

Turn the ship around
CRITICAL ANALYSIS

Major theme of the book
 David Marquet in his book “Turn the Ship Around!”, has detailed his
experience of leadership in one of the most ill reputed submarine
(Marquet, 2012).
 In this book, the author has detailed his experience of transforming the
situation from negative to positive by following radically different
management model.

Interest in selecting this book
 This book reflects upon the new and optimistic leadership models
which the author has applied to incur advantage for his followers and
thus saved fate of the submarine in the worst situation.
 This book mainly shares the though that the authority must to moved
towards the information and not the vice versa (Marquet, 2012).

Main theories and principles
 In this book the author has detailed the phases of leader-leader and
leader-follower models.
 Along with these, leadership theories like
 Transformational
 Participative
 Transactional
 Situational
 Path-goal theory have been applied in some solving the issues.

Theories to being a leader
 The theories used in this book has close connection with the leadership
styles and processes.
 The author in transforming the situation of the submarine, had
focussed on the leader-leader practise falling into 3 areas control,
competence and clarity (Marquet, 2012).
 David Marquet has transformed the followers into leaders and allowed
them to participate in the decision making process.

Theories to being a leader
 The leadership theories like Transformational, Participative,
Transactional, Situational and Path-goal theory has helped the author
to find out the effectiveness of considering a radically different process
for leading his submarine.
 Through using the leader follower model, he has embraced the value
and efficiency of collaboration to be the organizing principle for this
task.

Leadership standards
 Through the principles and theories, the author has developed four
leadership standards which include,
 Building of talents, celebrating excellence, and all-inclusive growth of
the team members (Offermann & Coats, 2018)
 Driving values for the institution by controlling and clarity
 Working as partners following leader-leader model the author had
delivered results and let the followers live their values.

Personal development as a leader
 Through this book, the author has detailed principles of radical
management based on which I have developed my personal leadership
skills.
 The self organising teams in this case, works in an interactive fashion
that require radical transparency as the transformational leader.
 I have developed understanding of the essentiality of communication,
collaboration and scope of improvement of the employees through
leadership.

Summary of the theories in book
 The theories and principles presented in the book are the leader-
follower models and leader-leader model.
 By converting all the followers into the leaders, the leader can
empower them and open access for resources needed.
 The leader-leader model allows the organisation to think long term and
transform the human resource for saving the submarine to be
destroyed in adverse situation.

critique of the book
 The book mainly focuses on the capabilities of the leaders to
transforming any adverse situation by empowering the human
resources of the institution.
 This book shares the empowering of the employees method to
overcome the most absurd of difficulties
 The conversation between the leader and the followers have enhanced
the clarity of the situation and made this book more applicable and
relevant.

Use of this book
 This book is highly useful for developing knowledge base and personal
development as a leader.
 Through this book, the contemporary leaders can be guided and
transform their most incompetent human resource into competent
ones.
 The theories and principles reflected in the book enhances knowledge
for the leaders operating in a company and facing similar situation.

Reason for recommending this book
 This book is an effective piece of work that can guide the
contemporary business leaders to identify the reasons of the difficult
situation of the companies.
 It is recommended as the author has detailed the traits and behaviours
of the leaders that are much needed to operate in a successful
company.
 This book is also recommended as the process of motivating the
followers to cope up with the situation has been detailed.