- L. David Marquet
"Imagine a work place where everyone engages and contributes their full intellectual capacity. A place where people are healthier and happier because they have more control over their work - a place where everyone is a leader."
"Leadership is communicating to people their worth and potential so clearly that they are inspired to see it in themselves." - L. David Marquet
DAVID MARQUET molded the leadership techniques he developed on the nuclear-powered submarine USS Santa Fe into a system called Intent-Based Leadership® for your organization to implement to create effective leaders at every level. "A vast untapped human potential is lost as a result of treating people as followers." - L. David Marquet
What Is Leadership?
Our police department began using IBL principles. We now use them in the entire district. What a difference this is making to our people. And...crime is down 3%.
Reduces stress in your organization
Intent-Based Leadership has made a HUGE difference in my stress level.
Why should you empower people?
We have been using Intent-Based Leadership and found that when we began to trust and empower our people, our company doubled in revenue and size.
What does using Intent-Based Leadership do?
Intent-Based Leadership has made such a difference for our call center. We have reduced our quarterly attrition from eight people to zero.
Intent-Based Language
By changing how I asked a question, my staff began to feel safer and responded completely different to me. Language does make a difference!
What do organizations achieve using Intent-Based Leadership?
We just achieved a “top-level performance status” and we did it using Intent-Based Leadership principles.
In an intent-based organization, where everyone thinks of themselves as a leader, there’s a strong element of inviting feedback. Here’s David with more. When it comes to creating empowering organizations where everyone feels like a leader, feedback is very important. But it’s not “giving” feedback, it’s “inviting” feedback. This is the key. When people say...
We generally hear two perspectives on job descriptions. On one side, a job description is an old industrial age construct that reads like a list of things to do. On the other side, we talk with companies (they’re typically startups) who say job descriptions are too constraining. Here’s David with more about how role clarity...