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Mission Mastery: Pillar 1—Mission

In: Mission Mastery

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  • Brian Dive

    (Fairlawn)

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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.

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  • Brian Dive, 2016. "Mission Mastery: Pillar 1—Mission," Management for Professionals, in: Mission Mastery, edition 1, chapter 3, pages 51-75, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:mgmchp:978-3-319-25223-0_3
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-25223-0_3
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