This is a guest post written by Roderick Yapp:
A couple of months ago, I was sat in a meeting with someone who was looking to recruit people to their growing organization. We were talking about the type of people they were looking for and the fact that a service based business is heavily dependent upon the quality of its people.
We started to talk about ex-military candidates – at which point someone said ‘we want to attract them because they follow orders and do what they’re told…’
Once I had ‘corrected the individual’ on the fact that former servicemen don’t simply follow orders, I was left reflecting on the myth that still exists – that servicemen follow orders doing what they are told without challenge or pausing to think about the consequences of their actions.
Tags: Corporate Learning • Development • employee • leadership • Performance • tony robbins • victor frankl