Probably one of the best leadership skills I learned as a nuclear submarine officer in the US Navy was delegation. Would you believe that on a nuclear submarine, the captain is involved in very little of the day-to-day activities? I know movies make it seem like the captain does everything, but that’s not the case. Even though he is 100 percent accountable for the ship – including the crew, the nuclear reactor and the nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles if it’s a boomer – he doesn’t work 24x7x365. Given the fact that when a submarine screws up, people can die, international incidents can be created, or the captain can get fired, you would think that the captain would never delegate anything but the simplest tasks.
So how does the captain of a nuclear submarine successfully delegate so much of the day-to-day operation of the ship?
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