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In today's day and age, people effortlessly equate the business environment to a battlefield, and rightly so! In many ways, business is a battle of strategies, tactics, wits, and character. This is where business leaders are like military leaders—they all fight for dominance and profit.
It is well known that there are several components of military training that can be vital in the corporate domain. There are numerous lessons that corporate managers can learn from military on motivation, team building, goal orientation, and organizational culture.
Leadership Lessons from the Military articulates what lessons from military leadership can be applied to the business context and how to go about it. The book shows how executives can leverage time—tested military practices to create lasting competitive advantage. Business leaders can learn how military leaders tie individual goals with the organizational goals, resulting in a highly motivated and committed workforce, which, in turn, augments organizational efficiency and enhances employee productivity and retention.
Developing SOPs: Strategies and Tactics
Developing SOPs: Strategies and Tactics
Introduction
In this global market endowed with cut-throat competition, firms need to implement cutting-edge strategies to compete with other firms. Firms need to be aggressive, vigilant, quick, well informed, and well prepared with everything that gets them to the top. Military as an organization is the best example of this.
There are various lessons that the corporate firms can learn from the operational procedures followed by the military (Figure 6.1). Military standard operational procedures (SOPs) consist of various strategies and tactics to compete with the rivals. One of the most crucial lessons that corporate firms can learn from the military is identifying the right strategies and executing them at the right time.