 Mission Mastery: Pillar 1—MissionBrian Dive
Chapter 3 in Mission Mastery, 2016, pp 51-75 from Springer Abstract: Abstract As described in Chap. 1 , Mastery is the successful migration of command to civilian organizations. It is the optimisation of the Pillars of Mission, Organization Design, Leadership Development, Experiential Learning and Culture in a non military organisation. This chapter is about the first of these five Pillars: purpose. So the first key step is the defining of the relevant purpose, which Moltke called ‘mission’, the prime Pillar. He moved quickly from the abstract concept of ‘mission’ to its concrete delivery, by describing how the process amounted to the mastering of its elements of what, why and how. He then separated the delivery of what and why from that of how. Top leadership was accountable for “what” and “why”. Delivery of “how” was the role of less senior leaders down to and including the . This led inexorably to a focus on the quality of leadership training and general execution in lower echelons since Moltke realised that training was the glue that held together the demands of what-why-how in the field, where friction was to be both expected and had to be overcome. Keywords: Organization Design; Large Organization; Business Unit; Leadership Development; Civilian Organization (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:mgmchp:978-3-319-25223-0_3 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-25223-0_3 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Management for Professionals from Springer |
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