It's Your Ship

Captain D. Michael Abrashoff

Same ship, same budget, same crew, mostly the same rules — and it went from worst to first. The difference was a leader who listened, delegated real ownership, and backed his people.

How a new captain turned the USS Benfold from one of the worst ships in the Pacific Fleet to one of the best — not through authority but by seeing the ship through the crew's eyes, pushing ownership downward, and treating every sailor as capable of more.