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Mirtha Goss
David Marquet, former navy captain of the nuclear-powered submarine USS Santa Fe, explains his success in one of the most top-down structures in the world, the navy. The results from the leader-leader structure are impressive during crucial combat decisions. Emancipating competent people with clear goals is powerful. Once people take ownership of what they do, they do it better. They not only stop the lousy competition between themselves but also focus on improving the existing mechanisms set in stone beforehand.
Reflection on oneself is a great deal. Learning what kind of leadership relationship you would like to create is a process. It takes time and experience. Once you see an excellent leader-leader structure, you cannot stop thinking about how much it empowers.
The leader-follower structure is problematic because every responsibility lies in the leaders. Followers-only "follow orders" that leadership gives with no feeling of empowerment. After being in the system for a while, they stop thinking. They do what they have been told. In a leader-leader structure, everyone takes responsibility.
If you want to give ownership, don't just preach and hope for the best. Implement mechanisms that will support ownership. People should use these mechanisms to own their domain instead of waiting for you to give ownership.
Eliminating top-down monitoring pushes ownership and monitoring to those doing the work. Ownership rests with the person or people responsible for delivering the value. Marquet notes that this mechanism does not get rid of monitoring or measuring. Ensuring that monitoring does occur (as close to the work as possible) makes the progress towards a goal more visible and transparent while keeping the ownership focused on those that can best assure delivery.
I was very excited to read my copy ofïTurn the Ship Around! How to Create Leadership at Every Level by L. David Marquet (here on Amazon). I actually found out about the book through a random link that I followed on Twitter. The link led me to a video interview of the author, and it excited me enough to hunt down the publisher and request a copy of the book.
Are the ideas new? Not really. Captain Marquet invited Steven Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People to tour his ship. He admits that he is implementing many of the ideas in that book. Is that bad? Not at all. The book is a success story. Marquet is honest, vulnerable, and humble. He shares his very human thoughts, concerns, and mistakes in trying to make major changes in how an organization works and thinks. He cares about his people. And his results seem to bear out his theories.
You realise something has to change. Over time, you choose to stop giving all but the absolute most critical orders. Instead, you create a culture where everyone is responsible for the whole ship, everyone is empowered.
First, just to make sure you're aware: Nobody should be flying straight up to 10,000 meters and then suddenly turning 45 degrees. That used to be the right behavior, before 1.0, before the new aero. However, for the past more-than-a-year, that's not the case. You want a gradual "gravity turn" that begins practically right off the pad.
Before I try to give any more specific advice, though, can you be a bit more specific? What exactly do you mean when you say that you "can't" turn the rocket before 20,000 meters? "Can't" as in "I push the W key and it won't pitch down, nothing happens"? Or do you mean "can't" as in "I have to just go straight up because if I try to rotate before 20,000 it flips out of control and acts crazy"? Or something else?
Like they said, pics. But one thing to watch is your speed. Too fast and you can have a hard time turning. Watch the g-force meter on your navball if it's over 2 than you're probably encountering this problem, however rocket designs vary--some may have trouble going much above 1.5 gee others may turn decently at 2g or more. Of course once you're above most of the atmosphere it's no longer a problem.
Turning is also only a problem if you want to end up in Kerbin orbit. If you want to go to Minmus or the Mun, then you don't need to turn. Ships that go fast straight up are very good for exploring the system.
The thing which helped me to learn to use gravity turns was actually MechJeb. It has (amongst other things) an ascent autopilot that will do the gravity turn for you. The only time it will fail is if a) your vessel doesn't have enough fuel to reach orbit or b) your vessel is badly designed - not streamlined, no fins, mass not centred above thrust vector, no engine gimballing or reaction wheels, and similar things which you probably will pick up fairly quickly as you progress with learning the game.
As you can see, my Mercury 1 spacecraft is streamlined and has fins at the bottom (fins without control surfaces). The engine at the bottom is modded, but the important thing about it is that it can gimbal (if you're unfamiliar with that term, it means that the engine can direct its thrust to help to turn the rocket). There is a fairing around all parts of the rocket that are not particularly streamlined in order to minimise drag (the less drag you have the safer your gravity turn is). Finally, in addition to the integrated reaction wheel in the command pod, there is also a 1.25m reaction wheel at the top of the booster. It is decoupled when the booster is decoupled, but on the ascent it aids in control of the rocket.
These instructions are perhaps a little specific, but hopefully should give you some insight into how to perform a gravity turn, and how to design your vessels so that they're capable of performing a gravity turn.
With a Reliant, you don't have any of #1 at all. Your fins are fixed ones, so you don't have any of #2, either. The only turning authority you have at all is #3, the reaction torque from your command pod, and it's pretty weak in comparison to #1 and #2.
Did you check your g-force like I suggested? You've got four SRB's there and unless you have set their throttle limiters (in the VAB right click on one of them), that thing probably goes pretty fast at the start until they burn out and the faster you go the harder it is to turn. A gimbaling engine can help like Snark suggested but if you are going too fast it can still be hard to turn.
Agree with the others here, and thanks for the picture. As @Snark said, if that center engine is a Reliant, you're pretty screwed for turning. I'd expect that to launch you high enough where the air is thin and fins are no longer effective, so a Swivel is called for.
As he also said, it's harder to turn the faster you're going, especially if your ship is flexible (read: more smaller tanks). Four Hammers will get you going very fast, very quickly, and it may be too late for a good turn by the time you stage them off. I've never needed more than two Hammers on a ship of (roughly) that size, even when I'm flying badly (and I do, often). Three, tops.
But even that much shouldn't be necessary. If he starts a gravity turn practically right off the pad, then the torque of the command pod should be plenty to nudge the nose of the ship a couple of degrees eastward when the ship is going low speed.
In the final part IV Clarity (Under Way for Deployment, A Remembrance or War, Leadership at Every Level, A Dangerous Passage, Looking Ahead, Combat Effectiveness, Homecoming, A New Method of Resupplying, and Ripples) it becomes clear that to be able to push down authority, in addition to control it is becomes increasingly important that everyone understands what the organization is about. This section deals with a number of clarity mechanisms such as achieve excellence, build trust and take care of your people, use your legacy as a source for inspiration, use guiding principles for decision criteria, use immediate recognition to reinforce desired behaviors, begin with the end in mind and encourage a questioning attitude over blind obedience.
The actual story starts 25 days to change of command and then we get a description of the 172 days to deployment of the Santa Fe, provided the submarine passes through the strict inspections and it does. The Santa Fe was the worst performing ship (poor morale, poor performance and the worst retention in the fleet) and became the best performing ship of the fleet. There are 135 men on board of whom the most important persons with name and function are described. The story reads smoothly and each chapter is closed with a number of questions to consider.
The two-part case study describes two attempts to empower the crews of two nuclear submarines of the US Navy. The case highlights the challenges as well as the weaknesses and strengths of the empowering process. While not against the operational principle of command and control on board a submarine, empowerment is in contrast to the traditional leadership doctrine of the US Navy which relies on the leader-follower principle. The case is based on the personal account of co-author L. David Marquet, Captain, US Navy (Ret.) and former commander of the USS Santa Fe. He authored the bestselling book "Turn the Ship Around!" that provides a more detailed account of the events described in the A and B cases.
Actually, it's not. It's about leadership. Whether you think so or not, you are, or will be, leaders. You're not in grad school to become passive drones. Learning something about leadership is an important step towards establishing a career. This book is about how the captain of a nuclear submarine took his crew from being one of the worst performing in the US submarine fleet to one of the best. He did this by empowering those in his command. That's important lesson. You don't want to be a passive drone. You shouldn't let those you oversee be passive drones either.
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