How to Maintain Discipline in a Leadership Position

When you're in a leadership position, you are being watched. You are being emulated. Your emotions are being mimicked. So set the good example. And one of the premier examples he's setting is he's maintaining the discipline. Colonel Bob Sink was a magnificent commander. But this time he had had a little too much to drink and his order to dispatch another patrol to capture additional prisoners did not make sense. A second patrol would only result in casualties for no apparent reason. If I followed Colonel Sink's order, the enemy would have heard us coming a long way off. What to do? I responded, yes, sir. And then promptly ignored the order.