A review by melicamp
Turn the Ship Around! by L. David Marquet

4.0

“Turn the ship around!” was recommended to me as a good read for people taking the role of Scrum Master. It is one of the first books about leadership I have ever read. I really appreciate the idea of leader-leader model, in terms of making the scrum team self-organizing and preparing conditions for the empowerment of team members. Now I better understand the idea of not giving subordinates strict orders or exact solutions, but rather getting them to create their own solutions. Provided examples and stories were clear enough to grasp, although I had no previous experience with military terminology. However, it was a little bit hard for me to get familiar with all the positions on the ship and their meaning. As a result I don’t know how to make an exact translation from them to the roles at the company I work for. All in all, I would recommend it to anyone interested in empowering teams in their workplace.