Now, years later, I can see that implementing leader-leader on Santa Fe achieved two additional accomplishments that weren’t immediately knowable. First, the ship continued to do well long after my departure. Since we embedded the goodness of how we did business in the practices and people, that goodness persisted beyond my tenure. The ship won the award for the best chiefs’ quarters for seven years in a row and won the Battle “E” award for the most combat-effective submarine in the squadron three additional times in the subsequent decade. This compares with zero during the previous decade.
