Operating Principle1 book · 2 highlights
Delegate Execution, Dictate Intent
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Evidence
Napoleon
Andrew Roberts · 2 highlights
“Individual corps commanders – who tended to be marshals – would be given a place to go to and a date to arrive there by and would be expected to do the rest themselves.”
“‘The art of appointing men’, Napoleon told Mollien, ‘is not nearly so difficult as the art of allowing those appointed to attain their full worth.’32”
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