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by macfarbt 1320 days ago
You touch on a deeper truth about change in organisations. It can't just be important, it has to be vital. That is why military is such a pure testing ground for leadership. Or why Edmonson's psychological safety research was initially carierd out in hospitals. In less life or death situations, the fact change is only important not vital allows more emotional needs to distort things. Leaderless teams only thrive when senior authority cultivates or tolerates such autonomy. If they try to control due to some individual or systemic needs then autonomous leadership dies.
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Democracy army is good. I even considered to join US or UK forces.

For totalitarian armies better model from Jaroslav Hašek, The Fate of the Good Soldier Švejk during the World War.

> military is such a pure testing ground for leadership

Can't agree. You talking about very special type of army - democracy army, but it is just one subtype, and is of smallest share over the world.

Unfortunately, largest armies are totalitarian and communists, which have very different habits.