Four years ago the Second Sea Lord of the Royal Navy asked Andrew St George to spend time with every level of the Navy staff from junior sailors in the engine room of an aircraft carrier to handlers of landing craft through to Royal Marines ships commanders & Royal Navy staff right up to Navy Board & Cabinet level with the aim of creating a book which distils the leadership culture of perhaps the most highly respected & efficient organization in the world. This book charts that journey
- representing the largest piece of research on Royal Navy leadership ever done
- & it is the current state of the art leadership framework for the Navy. St George writes about how to plan & execute how to exercise judgment & how to motivate people. Everything in the book is here because it works tested over thousands of hours of hard training rigorous assessment & absolute measurement. The books messages are deceptively simple. In order to succeed we must have: the clarity of intent; the strategy; the resources; a contingency plan; an emotional investment. These tenets stand in all walks of business & personal life. The Royal Navys way of getting things done depends on soft skills high emotional intelligence & an understanding of how people work in small teams. This book (15 000 copies) will be issued to every Royal Navy officer & Senior Rate (middle manager) in the Service. The books insights are profound & their applications are wide-ranging: for industry for finance for professional services for commerce for academia & for the public sector these methods of planning executing & inspiring make a tried tested & effective way of leadership.