Analysis of It's Your Ship by Capt. D. Michael Abrashoff Essay

The intention of this paper is to introduce my leadership philosophy. I will start off defining leadership as well as explaining my leadership philosophy. I will then share a summary of an interview with a Squadron Commander about a difficult situation that he needed to use his philosophy to work through and analyze how my philosophy applies to the same situation followed by a brief summary.

As a Senior Enlisted Leader I aspire to develop a better comprehension of strategic issues. Having in-depth knowledge of the complexities behind decisions, processes, and the totality of circumstances is instrumental when addressing matters to Coast Guard field units. Furthermore, this perspective is integral to a Senior Enlisted Leader’s ability to provide timely, complete and reliable counsel to operational and strategic leaders, particularly when making decisions that significantly affect the workforce.

"The Boat" by Alistair MacLeod is the story told from the perspective of university teacher looking back on his life. The narrator relates the first memories of his life until his father's death. The story focuses on the conflicting relation between the mother and the father, and their different perspectives on how their children should lead their lives. MacLeod uses features of setting to present the tension between tradition and freedom.

The United States of America has not always been the world superpower that it is today. The same goes for its Navy. In the first several years of existence, the United States Navy was not a formidable fighting force. The young nation was hesitant to invest in a navy for many reasons, one of them being to prevent provoking the world powers of the time, France and Britain. On top of that, navies were very expensive to build and required a significant amount of resources to maintain, which the U.S. did not have at the time. To say that the United States Navy was ill prepared for war would be a dramatic understatement. The U.S. had a total of fifteen ships in its entire naval fleet compared to the might of the Royal Navy which possessed over six hundred warships. Even with the odds stacked against the U.S., President Madison declared war on 18 JUN 1812. The lack of size and power of the navy at the time would make it extremely difficult to satisfy the needs of the newly founded nation.

The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell shows that the Puritans were more than a colony of uptight Englishmen. Her thesis is about how the Puritans were a writing based group of people. The Wordy Shipmates starts off with Vowell stating, “The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief. And by dangerous I don’t mean thought-provoking. I mean: might get people killed” (pg 1). Vowell supports this statement throughout her book by explaining how religion plays an important role in every part of the Puritan lifestyle. She explains that they thought of themselves as "God's new chosen people” (pg 24).

Navy Leader Development Program (1990) suggest that "To lead you must first be able to follow: For without followers, there can be no leaders". One thing that is often overlooked concerning successful leaders is they were successful followers before they

2. Suppose a customer buys an iPhone from Apple for $500 on January 1, 2010. The cost of the iPhone to Apple is $350. Assume that the customer is entitled to upgrades over the next two years. Use the following financial statement effects template (FSET) to illustrate the financial statement impacts for Apple of the customer's iPhone purchase on the date of the initial purchase and at the end of each of the two years following the initial purchase under generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP).

I am Joseph Maruska, I am currently a Major in the United States Air Force. This essay will introduce you to my personal command philosophy. It will also summarize and analyze a brief interview recently conducted with a current squadron commander using my own leadership philosophy as a guide. Throughout this essay I will draw upon my own personal experiences and thoughts, lessons discussed throughout the Leadership and Command Course, as well the discussion with a current squadron commander. Leadership and command styles come in many different forms and there is not necessarily a correct or incorrect way to lead depending on your organization or current turn of events. This essay is simply my thoughts after being in the Air Force for the last eleven years.

We think that daily spot hire rate will likely decrease next year. There are two reasons. First, there are 63 new vessels scheduled for delivery in 2001 to increase the supply of vessel and only few old vessels need to be retired, while the demand will not increase because imports of iron ore and coal would remain stagnant over next two years. Second, exhibit 5 shows that avg. spot rate of 2000 was higher than the rate of previous years and avg. 3-yr charter rate. In addition, the market will seemingly go up after two years. Therefore, ship owners should hope to sign short-term contract through using lower daily spot hire rate rather than locking low daily high rate for a long period.

Marquet was then assigned to the USS Will Rogers as the engineer officer. Eager to implement his new ideas, Marquet executed a plan to give control to the members of his engineering department, rather than orders. Unfortunately, his experiment was a profound failure. There were numerous embarrassing errors that occurred as a direct result of relinquishing control to make decisions to the men under his command. Instead of motivating the men, they complained that they missed the former engineer who would just tell them what to do. Ultimately, Marquet took back decision-making control from his division officers. When his time on the USS Will Rogers ended, Marquet spent time analyzing why the situation on the USS Will Rogers ended so badly. He concluded that an empowerment program would not work within a leader-follower organizational structure.

The book “Turn the Ship Around! A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders” by L. David Marquet, Captain, US Navy (Retired) is the book we selected to review. Our group selected this manuscript because of the inspiring story behind the captivating title. A combination of intrigue and necessity inspired our group to examine this manuscript for its valuable motivating material about leadership and the art of delegation.

In this paper I will identify and explain the leadership concepts that I learned in this class using characters from the film Finding Nemo. To do so I will provide examples of transformative leadership and describe the impact it had on others. I will also explain how the characters acquired their leadership effectiveness by identifying experiences that were instrumental in their leadership development.

In my decision, the rational model was evident. I set various criteria for my ideal colleges, which included offering nuclear engineering, rank well as a college nationally, ideal location, and offering Naval ROTC/Naval Officer Commission. My objective was to graduate college with a degree in nuclear engineering, and commission as a Naval Officer. My problem was deciding where to attend college in the event I did not get into the USNA. Using the criteria as a guide, I began generating alternative solutions. I mentally judged how urgent and important everything was to me, and I determined that graduating in four years with a nuclear degree as a naval officer was most important and urgent. I narrowed the schools down first by degree offerings, and then I narrowed them down once more based off the presence on a Naval ROTC unit. I toured each college, taking in the facts of the campus. A short time later I ranked my schools and selected NCSU as my top solution to my problem, aside from the USNA. While I awaited the USNA’s decision, I began implementing my plan to attend NCSU; as a backup, I applied to all other schools on my list. I continued to move forward with NCSU, and I am glad I did, as the USNA did not offer me admission. Looking back, I evaluated my process in selecting NCSU, and I the only change I would make is talk more and earlier with the Nuclear Engineering and NROTC departments.

As the jungle and the journey to find the inner station and Kurtz is growing more enigmatic and eerie, Marlow begins to struggle remaining calm and composed. To mollify his nerves, Marlow remembers the comfort and joy he feels in his recent discovery of the Harlequin book at the Hut of Reeds. This joy he expresses for this book represents his yearning for a mark of his past world as he plods through this current “new” world. Even this book itself, An Inquiry into Some Points of Seamanship, looks like "dreary reading.” But excitement reaches Marlow as he sees its reality as "something unmistakably real." Despite being straightforward and pretty dull, the content of the book and the author, "Master in His Majesty's Navy", is a pure indication

In, “It’s Your Ship” by Captain D. Michael Abrashoff, discussed his experience of taking over as a commander of the USS Benfold. When Captain Abrashoff took over as commander of USS Benfold, a ship armed with every cutting-edge system available to him at that time was like winning a pot of gold, however, the productivity level of his crew members lacked below his satisfaction. Captain Abrashoff knew the responsibility for improving performance rested with him, he realized he had to expand