Turn the Ship Around! A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders

Marquet took command of a nuclear submarine with the lowest performance ratings in the US Navy and turned it into one of the highest, largely by inverting the relationship between command and initiative — moving from "I will, sir" to "I intend to" as the default communication mode. The book is the specific operational account of how he did it, with unusually concrete examples of the moments where the shift happens or fails. For product direction the transfer is direct: distributed authority is the challenge most product organisations face, and Marquet's account is more specific about how to produce it than the usual leadership literature. Short and memoir-style; deceptively deep.