Turn the Ship Around! (L. David Marquet, 2013)

This is a book written by a Navy captain that took command of the USS Santa Fe in the late 90s. He explains that the default model for leading in US submarines is the leader-follower model, where the captain is basically an all-knowing God who is the most expert in everything, and is therefore the one most qualified to give orders down to the minutiae. The model obviously has limits, most notably…