Episode 5

1)You can learn more about David Marquets views on leadership in his Weekly Leadership Nudges or in his book “Turn the Ship Around!”. He also talks about his Intent-Based Leadership at CMX Summit in 2015.

2) David Marquet also talks about submarine movies, especially “U-571” and how they depict a wrong style of Leadership in his eys. Similar examples might include “Hunt for Red October” or “Das Boot”. The latter is often seen as the most realistic submarine movie of all time. On the other hand, war movies often have trouble finding the right tone in leadership styles, shown by a conference paper by Kuri and Kaufman.

3) As a leader, one has to think about what to tell people what to do. In the worst outcome, one could give their subordinates a free pass in the wrong behavior. This can end up in a situation of diffused responsibility where the leader says that its the misbehavior of the subordinates and the subordinates say that they just followed orders. A Responsible Leader has to foresee those situations and avoid them by using the right language, not like in the example of Volkswagen and Martin Winterkorn that David Marquet and Kara discuss in this episode. Papers on diffused responsibility include Hamman, Lowenstein & Weber “Self-Interest through Delegation: An Additional Rationale for the Principal-Agent Relationship” and Bartling & Fischbacher “Shifting the Blame: On Delegation and Responsibility”.