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It's Your Ship
Grand Central Publishing 2007; US$ 11.99The story of Captain D. Michael Abrashoff and his command of USS Benfold has become legendary inside and outside the Navy. Now Abrashoff offers this fascinating tale of top-down change for anyone trying to navigate today's uncertain business seas. When Captain Abrashoff took over as commander of USS Benfold, a ship armed with every cutting-edge system... more...
An Analysis of Sabbatical Leaves for Navy Surface Warfare Officers
RAND Corporation 2004; US$ 9.95Surface Warfare Officers (SWOs) spend long periods at sea, where they cannotattend to their families or to personal business. This reduces morale andaffects retention. The Navy has been exploring ways to allow SWOs more timein home port, and RAND compared the proposed programs? costs and benefits(though not the direct effects on retention). more...
It's Our Ship
Grand Central Publishing 2008; US$ 12.99The story of Captain Abrashoff and his command of USS Benfold has become legendary inside and outside the Navy. By governing his ship with his unique management techniques, Abrashoff turned the Benfold into a model of naval efficiency, with amazing cost savings, the highest gunnery score in the Pacific Fleet, and a highly motivated and top performing... more...
Measures of Effectiveness for the Information-Age Navy
RAND Corporation 2004; US$ 9.95This report creates a framework for developing measures to help the Navy decide how network-centric operations affect combat outcomes and which information systems work best. It shows a proof-of-concept tool that can generate several alternative network-centric command systems. more...
Outside the Fleet
RAND Corporation 2002; US$ 9.95The military services must assign people to outside organizations, such as joint duty with unified CINCs. The authors examine how the Navy deals with such demands and offer a series of recommendations, such as standardizing and simplifying related processes, defining a perspective on such assignments and reconciling it with officer career paths, and... more...
Aft and Fore
RAND Corporation 2002; US$ 9.95An examination of the US Navy's requirements and inventory of its officer corps. It analyses changes in authorizations and inventory, compares authorizations and inventory and potential gaps in costs related to them, and estimates personnel requirements for the years 2010 and 2017. more...
Get Your Ship Together
Penguin Group US 2004; US$ 25.95Former U.S. Navy Commander Michael Abrashoff attracted worldwide media attention for his success in turning around a struggling ship, the USS Benfold ?the subject of his acclaimed bestseller, It?s Your Ship . Since then, he?s been a fixture on the business lecture circuit, spreading an empowering message that any organization can be turned around... more...
The Admirals
Dundurn 2006; US$ 12.99A biographical compendium of articles on the officers who led Canada?s navy from 1910 to 1968. more...
The Making of the Modern Admiralty
Cambridge University Press 2011; US$ 84.00An important new history of decision-making and policy-making in the British Admiralty from Trafalgar to the aftermath of Jutland. more...
The Challenges of Command
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2011; US$ 124.95This book explores the ways that the Edwardian naval arms race forced the Royal Navy to address deep-seated structural problems caused by rapidly changing technology. It charts how an institution organised for three hundred years around sailing ships, faced the challenge of steel and steam, and what that meant for an officer class recruited largely... more...









