Hierarchy

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“Military leaders are different from leaders in other types of organizations because they are appointed and not emergent.8 The military leader's authority to lead derives from the Constitution. If he cannot pull his followers by force of character, he can push them by force of law. Military leadership is essentially autocratic and operates in a wheel rather than an allchannel communication net. The flow of communication, or essential information, is between the leader and his subordinates rather than among all the members of his group. The wheel net, though no doubt gratifying to autocratic leaders, produces more errors, slower solutions, and reduced gratification to the group than does the more democratic allchannel net. Effective leaders are able to adjust communication flow by adapting situationally appropriate leadership styles.”

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