A short YouTube talk (transcript) contrasting military-style command-and-control leadership with private-sector leadership. The speaker argues that strict orders are appropriate only during brief chaotic situations; in normal business contexts leaders should build trust, provide context, and cultivate morale so teams will follow orders reliably when chaos occurs.
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Private sector thinks military is all command and control, right? Do this. Do as I tell you. Take an order. And so they think that being a strong leader because they've seen too many movies is barking orders and telling people what to do. Now, you know as well as I do that that, that that is a part of leadership where you. I'm going to tell you a task without any context, and you're going to do it. But that is reserved for moments of chaos. And when there isn't chaos, you're spending time building trust, you're spending time offering context. You're spending time building the sprita core so that when you are in a chaotic situation, you absolutely can bark orders and scream and yell, because I don't have time for feedback and I don't have time to give you context. And they will follow the orders with high motivation because they trust. They trust that you would not give them an order that would needlessly put them at danger, even though they understand that you'll sometimes make mistakes. And so I think in business, in private sector, we need to learn to adjust as well, which is command and control works fine in short periods of time, in moments of chaos, but it cannot be. Nobody has the energy to endure that on a daily basis.
