The Dichotomy of Leadership Chapter 1-2

What are the Four Laws of Combat?

• Cover and Move, Simple, Prioritize, Execute and Decentralized Command.

•    Cover and Move, Plan, Initiative and Execute.

• Cover and Move, Simple, Organize and Prioritize.

When does Centralized Command is taken too far?

• When leaders understand the strategic goals to execute.

• When too much autonomy is giving to subordinate leaders who don’t fully understand strategic goals and how to execute in support of those goals.

Leaders must find the ___________. They must push hard without pushing too hard.

• Motivation

• Balance

• Strategy

Lack of vision doesn’t mean that the leader is too hands-off with a team.

• True

• False

 What makes the best leaders and best teams great is that when they make mistakes, they acknowledge them, take ownership, and make corrections to upgrade their ________________.

• Performance

• Trust

• Effort

There are limitless dichotomies in Leadership, but none as difficult as this: when leaders develop close relationships with their people, they may not be willing to make those people do what is necessary to complete a project or a task.

• True

• False

What can happen when leaders take the attitude of Extreme Ownership on everything and leave subordinates with nothing to own?

• Subordinates improve their performance.      

• Subordinates have more freedom to perform.

• Subordinates shut down mentally because the leader’s micromanagement is too controlling.

True Extreme Ownership means that a leader is responsible of everything, whether a team succeeds or fails is all up to the leader, this means that the leader must do everything.

• True

• False

Micromanagement fails because no one person can control multiple people executing a vast number of actions in a dynamic environment, where changes in the situation occur rapidly and with unpredictability.

• True

• False

To correctly balance the micromanager and the hand-off leadership style, the leader must?

• Maintain an equilibrium where the team have the guidance to execute but at the same time the freedom to make decisions and lead.

• Maintain an equilibrium where the team cannot make decisions without the leader approval.