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Leadership and management, studied through military history
Free articles written for the LinkedIn desk. Each one takes a single leadership or management question, researches it against the historical record, and answers it with what commanders and their staffs actually did — the decision, the constraint, the outcome, and the lesson a manager can use the same day.
The Decision Brief That Fits on One Page
Staff work compressed to what a commander can read standing up: the problem, the options, the recommendation, and what fails if the answer is wrong. The same discipline turns a long management update into a decision.
Delegating Without Losing the Thread
What a corps commander kept in his own hands and what he pushed down — and why the boundary was written on day one rather than discovered mid-campaign.
When the Plan Meets the Ground
Two documented cases where a sound plan failed on contact, and the reporting rhythm that let both headquarters correct in days instead of weeks.