General Stanley McChrystal on Evaluating Risk, Leadership and More
Elevate with Robert Glazer
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The Importance of Information Technology in Business
In the First World War, because of the trench system on the Western Front, you needed to achieve mass in artillery fire and attacking forces. And so they would write these very detailed battle plans that would say this minute this happens. The problem is that's very inflexible and brittle. Once things start to go awry, if your organization is following that plan or centralized guidance, which isn't very adaptable, then suddenly you start being clunky - getting horrific outcomes. As we start to get in a more fluid environment where that mass can be defeated by the enemy once they identify it, you've got to suddenly have something that can pick up information at the more decentralized locations and then
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