"This is ‘mission command’ and violating it and micromanaging my Yeomen is a real taboo."
In 1912, a guy by the name of Frank Schofield gave a lecture to the US Naval War College that was later published as a booklet called The Estimate of the Situation. (This was later blown all out of proportion, but I think the original is the clearest.) (http://edocs.nps.edu/dodpubs/topic/general/est-sit_1912.pdf)
It's a very good way of setting up a mission command-style order:
1. Here's my understanding of the situation.
2. Here's what we need to do.
3. Here's the difficulties preventing us.
4. Here's the assets we have.
5. And therefore this is what I want done. (The person getting the order gets to go through a similar process to figure out how to do it.)
In 1912, a guy by the name of Frank Schofield gave a lecture to the US Naval War College that was later published as a booklet called The Estimate of the Situation. (This was later blown all out of proportion, but I think the original is the clearest.) (http://edocs.nps.edu/dodpubs/topic/general/est-sit_1912.pdf)
It's a very good way of setting up a mission command-style order:
1. Here's my understanding of the situation.
2. Here's what we need to do.
3. Here's the difficulties preventing us.
4. Here's the assets we have.
5. And therefore this is what I want done. (The person getting the order gets to go through a similar process to figure out how to do it.)