CHAPTER FOUR
CONSCIOUS LEADERSHIP
It is quite deliberate that the order of this book puts the topic of people before that of leadership. In fact, it reflects both a switch from the contemporary sequence of leadership first, people second and a return to Julius Caesar’s long-standing maxim that ‘every soldier has a right to competent command’.
As General Patton put it in his book War As I Knew It back in 1947: ‘There has been a great deal of talk about loyalty from bottom to top. Loyalty from the top to the bottom is much more important and also much less prevalent. It is this loyalty from the top to the bottom which binds juniors to their seniors with the strength of steel.’
So what defines a ‘competent command’ ...
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