When a team is in the midst of battle, what they don’t need is micro-management. In combat, the last thing troops need is a control freak in command. They need direction, purpose, shared understanding of the mission and the reasoning behind it. And, they need complete confidence, loyalty, and devotion…to each other. The focus of efficiency and “doing things right,” had better have taken place long before battle…

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Trident Leadership was featured in a recent article by the Associate Press on business groups studying leadership lessons on historic battlefields, such as Gettysburg, Chickamauga, and Normandy.

The concept is not a new one. In fact, Congress preserved American battlefields as National Parks specifically for this purpose. The military has been studying leadership in this way for over 100 years, refering to it as a Battlefield Staff Ride. Ours is a Battlefield Leadership Study.

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