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Be Like the Sea: Life, Learnings and Leadership from an Irish Navy Captain
Author(s): Marie Gleeson (Author)
- Publisher: Gill Books
- Publication Date: September 3, 2026
- Language: English
- Print length: 288 pages
- ISBN-10: 1804584495
- ISBN-13: 9781804584491
Book Description
‘The one thing you can’t fully control in a ship is the water all around you, so part of your plan is always reading and analysing the currents and the tides. You have a clear image in your head of how you think the ship will perform in the prevailing conditions. But this time something isn’t going the way we had planned it ’
As a farmer’s daughter in the country’s largest landlocked county, Marie Gleeson’s unusual career choice took her into uncharted waters. Working her way up from gruelling bootcamp training to leading a drug interdiction operation seizing €700 million of cocaine from a yacht off the Kerry coast, she was a leader among men and rose to every challenge. Developing a love of the sea, Marie learned that to be at one with it required agility, and a willingness to change, to go with the wind not against it. These lessons prepared her for operating without a life raft when her personal life threw her the greatest challenge of all.
Be Like the Sea is the inspiring story of what happens when we overcome our own self-imposed physical, mental and emotional limitations, and a blueprint for charting our own unique path in life.Editorial Reviews
About the Author
Marie Gleeson is a former captain in the Irish Navy. She is celebrated for her ability to translate her military experiences into valuable lessons for business and the real world.
