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Richard Martin’s Monday Morning Brilliant Manoeuvres – 18 February 2013

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Brilliant Manoeuvre
Explain your plans and intent to your followers, as well as those of your immediate and higher superiors, and even the organization as a whole. Involve them in the planning and determination of your objectives. Get them to understand the criticality of their contributions and what they need to do to achieve the mission and vision.

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Bert Hoffmeister is recognized by historians as one of the most effective senior Canadian officers of the Second World War. He rose from the rank of Major and the job of company commander all the way to Major General and division commander in a few short years. He commanded during the very difficult and costly Italian Campaign, as part of Montgomery’s 8th Army. Whereas most Canadian generals tended to be aloof and overly analytical in their approach to command, Hoffmeister was able to communicate directly and on a gut level with soldiers of all ranks. He would involve his subordinate officers in the estimations and planning for operations and encouraged them to do so with their own subordinates. He would command from the front and keep everyone in the loop, usually by direct face-to-face contact. He was a master of motivation; his officers and NCOs would often do extraordinary things because they knew what was happening, why it was happening, and what their role was in implementing the plan and achieving the mission. Even more important, though, was that they had had a key role in the planning, so it wasn’t just something imposed from on high, but a mission that had grown organically with their input.

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Keep your followers informed of the mission, the changing situation, and the overall picture.

Richard Martin is a consultant, speaker, and executive coach. He brings his military and business leadership and management experience to bear for executives and organizations seeking to exploit change, maximize opportunity, and minimize risk.

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Richard Martin is the President of Alcera Consulting Inc., a strategic advisory firm collaborating with top-level leaders to provide strategic insight, navigate uncertainty, and drive transformative change, ensuring market dominance and excellence in public governance. He is the author of Brilliant Manoeuvres: How to Use Military Wisdom to Win Business Battles and the creator of the blog ExploitingChange.com. Richard is also the developer of Strategic Epistemology, a groundbreaking theory that focuses on winning the battle for minds in a world of conflict by dismantling opposing worldviews and ideologies through strategic narrative and archetypal awareness.

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