In any bureaucracy, there's a natural tendency to let the system become an excuse for inaction.

Chris Fussell

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If the most deeply interconnected individuals can exemplify the behaviors that your official top brass sets out, then the rest of the organization will follow suit.

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In 2010, I was an executive officer in the Navy, splitting my time between U.S. headquarters and being deployed to an international location.

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Most teams are naturally flat; they have fewer members than a large enterprise, which allows for intimacy and trust to form. This makes collaborative problem solving in individual teams more straightforward.

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Leaders in an interconnected organization must be comfortable sitting in the middle of a network, not at the top of an org-chart.

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In the military, and in business, the most elite and effective teams I've seen or been part of are filled with individuals who take responsibility for their choices. Life is a series of decisions that you make and actions you take, not a series of things that happen to you.

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