My peer battalion commanders and I are supposed to be coordinating this joint operation but we all have different priorities for our units and nobody wants to be the one who takes the higher risk mission. We've been dancing around this in meetings for weeks and the brigade commander is getting frustrated with all of us.
More people experience this than they realize.
Officers of equal rank struggle to subordinate individual unit interests to collective mission success.
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Peri can explain why this happens, help you decide if this is the right situation for you, and point toward the right journey or coach.
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.