[zdw]

Another good book in this vein is "Turn the ship around!": https://davidmarquet.com/turn-the-ship-around-book/

Which is written by a navy submarine captain, about how he turned one of the lowest performing crews into a high performing crews that went on to become leaders elsewhere.

It really spoke to helping align motivation, and making a path forward for success, which actually is somewhat easier in the military because much of the career progression is study/competency based (at least around submarine tasks). This well defined progression is less so outside the military, which I think is why we see so much job hopping.

[aliasxneo]

> which actually is somewhat easier in the military because much of the career progression is study/competency based

This is an interesting point. Being an ex-submariner, I do miss the unambiguous nature of knowing precisely what I needed to do next in terms of career progression. We had manuals for everything (big thick ones on the nuclear side), and anyone that was ahead of you had already learned what you were studying, so in (most) cases, you could ask questions and get reasonable answers. Everything was laid out in qualifications and each qualification had a static set of requirements that were well documented.

[hutzlibu]

"much of the career progression"

Aren't there also many dead ends in the military?