Buts that issue, when they transfer an incompetent it results in 2 steps back and twice as long for the unit to recover it’s confidence and it’s will to perform “ over and above” with the transfer of an incompetent no one has the confidence in leadership to do the right thing. And to the articles point, micromanagement is most definitely not Mission Command - Auftragstaktic. So units don’t exercise initiative.
longstanding practice of transferring incompetent officers out of brigades and onto high level staffs has resulted in an epidemic of micromanagement.) (War on the Rocks). This long standing practice results in poor morale and mostly a bunch of policy and procedures changes in TTP or SOPs or both that also results in exceptionally poor unit performance. Lastly it also means that there is an unsaid vote of no confidence
I really think once again the greatest master of modern bureaucracy, let’s call him Koba, was correct in transferring failures to penal combat units to redeem themselves under Orders 39&40. Many actually did. Rewarding incompetence with higher level staff assignments incentivizes cowardice and shirking then places these creatures such they can maximize personal profit while wreaking the greatest harm.
The most interesting part of Kaufman’s discussion was related but on the “Not one step back” policy.
Halten was zu halten ist!
Buts that issue, when they transfer an incompetent it results in 2 steps back and twice as long for the unit to recover it’s confidence and it’s will to perform “ over and above” with the transfer of an incompetent no one has the confidence in leadership to do the right thing. And to the articles point, micromanagement is most definitely not Mission Command - Auftragstaktic. So units don’t exercise initiative.
longstanding practice of transferring incompetent officers out of brigades and onto high level staffs has resulted in an epidemic of micromanagement.) (War on the Rocks). This long standing practice results in poor morale and mostly a bunch of policy and procedures changes in TTP or SOPs or both that also results in exceptionally poor unit performance. Lastly it also means that there is an unsaid vote of no confidence
I really think once again the greatest master of modern bureaucracy, let’s call him Koba, was correct in transferring failures to penal combat units to redeem themselves under Orders 39&40. Many actually did. Rewarding incompetence with higher level staff assignments incentivizes cowardice and shirking then places these creatures such they can maximize personal profit while wreaking the greatest harm.