Last week I wrote about dealing with curveballs and had a comment about how do you develop a strategy to cope with them. You can read that blog here. I replied that my strategies will not necessarily work for other people, then I got to thinking. The Army teaches you how to adapt to curveballs as they are a constant in Military operations. As the saying goes “no plan survives first contact with the enemy”. So how do the military do it and can we apply it to our situation?
Mission Command
The military use what is known as Mission Command to overcome changes in the situation (curveballs). Now I’m not going to go into an in-depth explanation of Mission Command as there is enough cyberspace storage and Brazilian rain forest deforestation already used up on the subject.
However, in essence:
Mission Command is a way of getting everybody on board with what you want to happen. It derives this by explaining to people what those two up the command level want to happen so that even if you cannot complete your task (mission) then you can do something to help fulfil the missions of those above you.
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