Leadership in the Military

Tom Peters has just posted a brilliant entry on his blog in which he compares commercial leadership and military leadership. While many people believe that the military is about command and control, it turns out that it's commercial leadership that's about command and control.

In the world of commerce any idiot can be appointed as a top executive or even president or CEO. Or any president can appoint his imbecile son or daughter as vice president.

But in the army it doesn't matter who is whose son or daughter. They have to start from the very bottom and earn their promotions bit by bit.

Just read Tom's post, and think about how this militaristic leadership style could work for you.