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Empathetic Leadership in the Field–More Insights with the MIT CTL Military Fellows

MIT Supply Chain Frontiers

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I'm Choosing to Explain the Why. When the Opportunity Presents Itself

I decided when I took my last command that I was going to take every opportunity to explain the why. So long as you understand that if I say, take the hill and take it now and don't call me until you've taken it, you're going to move out without question. And on only one or two occasions, do I think it ever had to come down to that? But before then I invested in going to every unit, particularly when missions were either very complicated or hard for the soldier to understand.

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