when you grow in size in an organization do you have to change the principles of
combat leadership from extreme ownership or adopt new ones no oh wait so but I
asked this kind of we do you have to do any easier either of these right that's
kind of the question do you have to change the principles or adopt new ones
do you have to do that no the answer is no as a matter of fact when your
organization gets bigger the only change you have to make is to get better at the
laws of combat that's what you have to do so as you grow you have to work
harder to build relationships with other divisions so that you can cover and move
for each other right that's that's that's a given you have to get better at
keeping things simple because the message has to be spread to more people
so a word has to be spread that is simple clear and concise that makes
sense you have to learn how to prioritize an execute better because
there's a larger group of people that have to shift their focus on whatever
priorities coming out but it's a you have a bigger ship to turn and you have
to do this accurately and quickly and there's less room for error in shifting
priorities when you have a bigger organization and of course for
decentralized command you you have to get better to that because in a small
organization it's it's pretty easy right you don't really you only really have to
do these in decentralized command if you've got five people working for you
you can actually just control them you don't really have to use decentralized
command it's a place to begin it and and instill that culture but you can get
away without it because you can actually you can actually watch everyone you can
direct everyone you can influence everyone you can actually lead them
directly when you're in a smaller organization so you don't have to be all
that great at decentralized command but as you get bigger you just can't do that
anymore so the only way to watch everyone and
direct everyone and influence everyone and lead everyone the only way to do
that is through your subordinate leadership is through decentralized
command so you have to be better at that now I will say that the the
one thing that you maybe have to adjust it's not really a principle but you you
are gonna have to look at your communication methods you're gonna have
to look at your communication methods you just aren't gonna be able to meet
with everyone face to face anymore you won't have time to meet your
organization when your organization gets big enough you won't
there'll be employees there and subordinate leaders that you'll never
see maybe some you know some that you've never been on a call with so how do you
get the message how do you get the mission all the way through the
organization we have to do with decentralized command but how do you
communicate it and my thing is always like you have to communicate in every
available method and the bigger you get the more the larger your organization is
you got to take advantage of everything gonna take advantage of calls of emails
of meetings of of physical documents that you know you put out and say hey
everyone read this and and you make videos I'm making that recommendation a
lot now too big larger organizations that I work with is why don't you know
I'll ask them how often are you having an all-hands type meeting well it's
really hard because you can't really get face to face with everyone because we've
got multiple different not only multiple different areas but we got multiple
different time zones so if we want you know you got someone on the other side
of the ocean hey we're gonna have a meeting at a reasonable time it's
impossible to have everyone at a reasonable time so what do you do okay
eventually it's okay well why don't you make videos make it make it make a
four-minute video that everyone can see and understand and see where the visions
going so all these every different communication methods that you can hit
all the different types of people because there's some people that like to
read emails there's some people that won't watch a video but they'll they'll
read an email they'll read a document there's some people that will not sit in
a conference call but they'll go through the notes that get sent out abridged
notes it's so there's all kinds of ways to communicate and my advice is to use
them all but the fundamental principles of leadership itself don't change so
don't just stick to them actually get better and pay more attention to them
check decentralized command that seems like the one but actually now what now
that you kind of explain it they all seem pretty important
well they are all important and there's and they are it's interesting there
they're actually in order what they're actually in order well they're in order
the way we wrote them in the way I originally talked about it yeah it's
like number one cover move if you're not doing that steam work if you're not
doing that you you're not gonna do anything
number two is you've got to keep things simple like you have to do that because
you can't cover move for someone else if you don't even understand what's going
on it's gotta be simple and then prioritize and execute well there's
gonna be things that have changed things that are dynamic and so the next thing
you got to worry about is like when things change how are you gonna
prioritize what's changing how you gonna handle these problems but then the the
last one is is decentralized command which is now that you've got those other
four kind of stable now you can start really leading properly but what for
your to your credit if you flip those upside down in an order of sort of broad
organizational importance decentralized command is the most important one now
you're not gonna have it without the other three prioritizing execute is the
next important one from an organizational perspective keeping
things simple is then the next one and so if you flip them upside down as an
organization the level of importance inside the organization is is reversed
but the way that you have to implement them a B and E and you the bottom lines
you'll never get to decentralized command if you can't keep things simple
you don't cover so you can't get there but in order to build them so in order
to build them you have to kind of use in an order but then when you look at them
when you look at them from the importance of how well they make a team
function again if you can't cover and move it all or you can't keep things
simple you'll never get to decentralized command but you have someone that's
working them all and they're all doing well well then the most important one is
decentralized command decentralized come in is the one that takes you the highest
level right it'll have the most impact on your organization you'll never get
there without the other three but once you have those three and you you
implement decentralized command you will be absolutely that'll be the most
powerful thing in your organization you can't do without the other three it's
the strongest but it doesn't matter without the other three