- ISBN13: 9780446529112
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Product Description
“The most important thing a captain can do is to see the ship from the eyes of the crew.” This belief has successfully guided D. Michael Abrashoff, the captain of one of the U.S. Navy’s most modern and lethal warships. Abrashoff has revolutionized how to handle such challenging problems as excessive costs, low morale, sexual harassment, and constant turn-over. Business managers will benefit from Abrashoff’s guiding belief that focus should be on empowering your pe… More >>
It’s Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy
” I DONT KNOW”, how to rate this book because i have not received it. I was told that i would receive this product between 16 AUG and 29 AUG. it is now SEPT 1ST and still no product.
Rating: 1 / 5
After reading this book, I happened to ask the opinion of an very high ranking Navy Officer whom I am friends with. When I asked him his opinion of this book and Captain Abrashoff, his only reply was “He didn’t make Admiral now did he?” Indeed. While reading this book, take note of the use of certain words such as I, me and my. I noticed a gross lack of the word we in this book.
We as in us, the team, it was lacking. I’m sure Mr. Abrashoff ran a ship to be proud of however he lacks the hindsight to appreciate teamwork. It is in fact team work that makes a business run and run efficiently. This type of attitude is exactly what is wrong with American businesses today. The us and them mentality which separates management from peons is very evident here.
Rating: 1 / 5
I anticipated an insightful book on leadership and was surprised to find only simple platitudes. More surprising were the number of personal pronouns throughout the book – I’ve never before read a management technique & leadership book that focused so much on the individual. In contrast, Jim Collins’ book “Good to Great” describes level 1 through 5 leaders. Let the reader decide for himself/herself what level is CAPT Abrashoff.
Rating: 1 / 5
I gleaned little from this book on “leadership” other than a better appreciation of the need for humility among leaders. CAPT Abrashoff’s arrogance is appalling. I’ve served on similar ships at the same time as CAPT Abrashoff and can empahtically say that few of the ideas he passes off as his own are truly original. Far from it for him to believe, but his is not the only ship in the Navy to achieve such success. Admittedly, BENFOLD did have a good reputation and continues to enjoy a good record. But I fail to see many positive lessons on leadership from his oddly-arranged collection of “sea stories”. In fact, this is not a book on leadership but what appears to be Abrashoff’s resume. The best thing I can say about it is that it will keep you riveted from page to page as your anger at such unrestrained arrogance and self-promotion boils over. If you can take away a lesson from it (as that is the goal of all books on leadership) it is that you should endeavour to not be like CAPT Abrashoff.
Rating: 1 / 5
WOW…I thought it took almost 300 people to run a Navy combatant. Obviously, according CAPT Mike, all the accolades received by the USS BENFOLD were all about him, and due to his leadership.
As a retired Navy CAPT, I feel he has done a true disservice to his fellow Surface Warfare Officers and all of his senior enlisted members and crew. Obviously, Mike missed the first session of Command Leadership l0l…Command is not about you as the Commanding Officer, its about the sailors!
Rating: 1 / 5