Mission Command

The Doctrine of Empowerment first formulated in WWII, and used ever since in the military to enable distributed decision making at speed

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Distributed Decision making

Mission Command

Command and Control

Synchronous 

Bottom up

Top down

Imposition of order

Emergence of order

Effectiveness

Efficiency

Asynchronous 

The building blocks of MC

Mutual Trust - Einheit

Psychological safety

Camaraderie

Distributed authority & leadership

Empowerment requires authority

Alignment - Auftragstaktik

Commanders intent - Schwerpunkt

Shared Consciousness

Independent, asynchronous operations

The why of purpose

Intuition - Fingerspitzengefühl

Empowered execution

Implicit guidance and control

Orientation

Intrinsic motivation & initiative

Agility

Empowerment

Flexibility

Orientation

Effectiveness

Team of Teams

Shared Consciousness

Empowered Execution

Alignment

Intuition

Mutual Trust

Agility

Team of teams lessons

  • MISSION
  • Shared consciousness
  • Empowered execution
  • Continuous feedback/reinforcement
  • Operational tempo
  • Push authority downwards

Mission Command - The doctrine of empowerment

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