Dave's Library

Lessons from a nuclear submarine.

My clients love me! A customer told me I saved his life! I just had lunch with Popular Jane Entrepreneur, she’s so awesome! I wasn’t that impressed with Famous Joe Entrepreneur, I would have done this, this, and this! Ick. This is what self-promotion often sounds like online.

When it comes to work stress, the best thing you can do is pretend you’re someone else.

How do you give feedback to a CEO who’s twice your age? I was 25, a new professor called in as a last-ditch, Hail Mary effort to save a dying company. They had already fired three consultants, so why not try me? The CEO had been leading longer than I’d been alive.

Sensitivity to other people’s emotions helps relationships; you can learn to be better at it.

The trick to managing people smarter than yourself is not as complicated as you might think.

“If the rabble continues to occupy itself with you, then simply don’t read that hogwash, but rather leave it to the reptile for whom it has been fabricated.”

It’s a paradox: Shouldn’t the most accomplished be well equipped to make choices that maximize life satisfaction?

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David Marquet led a distinguished career in the United States' Submarine Force, culminating in command of the nuclear-powered fast-attack submarine USS Santa...

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Schools claim to teach it; voters lionize it. But we know surprisingly little about how it works.

An important life lesson is revealed by an unlikely source.