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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.
Introduction
Introduction
There is so much that the corporate sector can learn from the military; right from laying the base of the organization to fighting competition with rivals, and the trajectory to being on the top. The genesis of the military goes back to eons. Military has not been studied as a part of management studies in general. However, the fact is that management, as a subject, or even as a concept, is based on the military. Militaries are undisputedly the best managed organizations in the world. Although it has a unique model, and it follows unique operations and processes, there are lessons that the corporate organizations can derive from it. If one can see beyond the abstruse, one will be able to see the similarities ...