Leadership lessons

Having never been in the service myself, it took me many years of trial and error to learn leadership skills. Recently, when confronted with the need to teach something about this skill to a young business associate, I sent him to see “Master and Commander.”

As Tony Perry describes so well [“A Salute to Peers of Old,” Dec. 13], this film is so much more than just another action-packed adventure. The leadership lessons demonstrated by Capt. Jack Aubrey have the power to change the life of the audience.

Don Ciaffardini

Long Beach