It's Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy (revised)

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		It's Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy (revised)
		It's Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy (revised)

The story of Captain D. Michael Abrashoff and his command of USS Benfold has become legendary inside and outside the Navy. Now Abrashoff offers this fascinating tale of top-down change for anyone trying to navigate today's uncertain business seas. When Captain Abrashoff took over as commander of USS Benfold, a ship armed with every cutting-edge system available, it was like a business that had all the latest technology but only some of the productivity. Knowing that responsibility for improving performance rested with him, he realized he had to improve his own leadership skills before he could improve his ship. Within months he created a crew of confident and inspired problem-solvers eager to take the initiative and take responsibility for their actions. The slogan on board became "It's your ship," and Benfold was soon recognized far and wide as a model of naval efficiency. How did Abrashoff do it? Against the backdrop of today's United States Navy-Benfold was a key player in our Persian Gulf fleet-Abrashoff shares his secrets of successful management including:
See the ship through the eyes of the crew: By soliciting a sailor's suggestions, Abrashoff drastically reduced tedious chores that provided little additional value. Communicate, communicate, communicate: The more Abrashoff communicated the plan, the better the crew's performance. His crew would eventually call him "Megaphone Mike," since they heard from him so often. Create discipline by focusing on purpose: Discipline skyrocketed when Abrashoff's crew believed that what they were doing was important. Listen aggressively: After learning that many sailors wanted to use the GI Bill, Abrashoff brought a test official aboard the ship-and held the SATs forty miles off the Iraqi coast. From achieving amazing cost savings to winning the highest gunnery score in the Pacific Fleet, Captain Abrashoff's extraordinary campaign sent shock waves through the U.S. Navy. It can help you change the course of your ship, no matter where your business battles are fought.

作者简介

CAPTAIN D. MICHAEL ABRASHOFF is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD, and was a military assistant to the former secretary of defense, the Honorable Dr. William J. Perry. Abrashoff left the Navy in 2001 and became the founder and CEO of Grassroots Leadership, Inc., in Boston. You can visit his website at www.grassrootsleadership.com.

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第一本在海外买的书，还没仔细看。。。。

Amazing book! I have shared this with several coworkers, friends, and family members. I work in the medical field and all of these ideas are basic in terms of how anyone should treat their coworkers and staff in order to increase productivity and morale.

The book is an easy read, amusing, and has many quotable lines that will leave you with take away messages or themes you can use in meetings should you be so inclined to quote Capt. Abrashoff.

It's about recognizing talent, potential, capitalizing on opportunities, listening to your staff/crew, acknowledging their concerns and ideas, allowing them to use their ideas and creativity to increase productivity, getting to know the people who you work for and who work for you, being aware of your surroundings, creating competition with yourself- yet knowing your time to shine, and creating pride in your work by owning it. Many of these things can be complicated when there are things dictated from upper management or fiscal and budgetary responsibilities, consequently through anecdotes, Captain Abrashoff shows how he was able to take one of the most poorly performing ships in the Navy to one of the best as someone in a middle management position.

I highly recommend this book to anyone who is looking for an alternative way to maximize their impact on those around them while working within the confines of the system in which they must function. The principles translate to any level of human interaction in the workplace, and would be considered helpful by individuals in many fields in increasing overall morale and productivity in this high pressured economy.

This is an EXCELLENT book on leadership and living with others who have different backgrounds and experiences from you. We're not all cut of the same cloth, but we're all human with needs and bring different experiences and views to the job. Abrashoff made an effort to recognize every person's value and seeks ways as a leader to utilize those individual characteristics for the goals of the organization. Clearly the military is not civilian life, but there are far more things in common than differences. Having served 4 years in the Navy (1971-1975), including 1 year, 5 months and 13 days (but who was counting) on an aircraft carrier, the USS Ranger, CV-61, I was enthralled by the Benfold's emphasis on individual search for excellence and teamwork. There's nothing ironic of the aphorism "a rising tide lifts all boats".

Abrashoff writes with an interesting combination of pride and modesty. There's no limit in to how far you can go if you do things to improve your company without caring about who gets the credit. Give opportunities to succeed to others below you, recognize the individual's characteristics, talents, views and needs and seek ways to incorporate them into the organization to improve it for everyone!

Decades ago my teenage niece gave me a paperweight which I kept prominently displayed which read:
"You're not hopeless, we can use you as a bad example."
At first it comes across as a put down, but to me it was a tongue-in-cheek reminder that everyone has value and can contribute to the group's success.

I'm prior military, so naturally I was drawn to this book. When two of my most respected supervisors and one of my peers ranted and raved about this book, I knew it was something special. I read it in probably three days and I just couldn't put it down once I started. It almost brought me to tears a few times because I've had some pretty horrible leaders during my time in the military, and this was the absolute polar opposite of that. I was so happy for the crew and the author's leadership. I would easily re-enlist if I knew I was going to be serving under a leader like the author was. If you supervise anyone, you MUST read this book. If you hope to supervise someday, you MUST read this book. Both of those respected leaders I just talked about said they both base their leadership off this book and I had NO idea in the 2 years I have known them so far, but it all makes so much sense now.

This book is a great read for a person who has been newly assigned to lead a large organization or group of individuals. The ship is a very good analogy for a company, or a large team of employees. The author does a really good job of illustrating leadership fundamentals with true stories taken from the helm of the navy ship Benfold. I think what this book does best is help managers learn that the way to be a good leader is to explain your clear expectations, give people a challenge, and allow them to prove they can handle it. When you treat people with respect and understand their situations personally, it goes a long way. Don't over-manage or try to control people in a way that makes them just follow orders. Allow them to suggest solutions and become part of the process to making the organization a better place to work. Also, one fundamental tip that goes a very long way: learn to praise people for a job well done. If your people know you are taking notice and appreciate their efforts, they will work all that much harder for you.

Great book, I only bought it because an authority figure who fancies himself a tyrant according to everyone that works for him has this displayed prominently in his office (as if to warn us all that he's in charge, it's "his" ship). But after reading I realized it's more than that, actually it's better than that, it's about how to run a ship/office/business/school whatever, in an efficient manner, and it's not HIS ship, its everyone's ship. Where Abrashoff shares in the crew's failures and successes equally, this other authority figure takes no ownership of failures and takes almost all the credit for any successes that his subordinates achieve, and never rewards the subordinates for having achieved them.

Yea, I'm pretty sure the guy I'm talking about didn't read the book.

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