Awareness of the leadership traits exhibited by Admiral Farragut in his famous order: "Damn the torpedoes Full speed ahead " can make any manager afloat or ashore more successful. Alec Fraser's experience as a Navy captain and the president of a division of Turner Broadcasting has taught him that leadership ashore can be modeled after centuries of leadership at sea. In Damn the Torpedoes Fraser utilizes his own experiences in the U.S. Navy and the corporate world to illustrate this concept.

Within the first sixty seconds of his induction to the U.S. Naval Academy, Midshipman...