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Damn the Torpedoes!
Applying the Navy’s Leadership Principles to Business
Awareness of the leadership traits exhibited by Admiral Farragut in his famous order: “Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!” can make any manager afloat or ashore more successful. Alec Fraser’s experience as a Navy captain and the president of a division of Turner Broadcasting has taught him that leadership ashore can be modeled after centuries of leadership at sea. In Damn the Torpedoes! Fraser utilizes his own experiences in the U.S. Navy and the corporate world to illustrate this concept.
A former ship captain and Turner Broadcasting executive shows how four leadership principles in the midst of a raging sea battle are much the same as the leadership principles in a competitive business environment. If you want to know what it takes to be a successful leader, have a successful career, or make a business highly successful, read this book.
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Providing a fresh and unconventional perspective, Captain Fraser gives personal and historic examples about the leadership traits of ship captains and suggests how leaders in any organization may adapt them to make their careers and businesses successful.
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Order your paperback copy of Damn the Torpoedoes! on the US Naval Institute website. Royalties will be donated to the Shepherd Center Military Initiative for brain injured soldiers.
Captain Fraser, building 21st century Leadership
Alec combines his two highly unique careers in the military and in business to provide organization leaders in 21st century useful leadership and management techniques that captains at sea have used for centuries. The demanding business environment today has become much like that captains have always faced at sea.
While Captain of the USS Cape St. George, the ship won the Navy’s Arizona Memorial Trophy for the most combat ready ship in the entire US Navy surface fleet. He speaks and conducts seminars on the techniques he and the crew used to earn that distinction…the same techniques that proved successful ashore at Turner Broadcasting. He is the author of the book entitled: “Damn the Torpedoes!” – Business Decision Making Techniques from Sea Captains.