The Critical Foundation of High Performing Teams

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.

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