EditorialLessons From the Military

Lessons From the Military

A five-paragraph operations orders format from the U.S. Army can help municipal leaders give crystal clear directions that lead to successful projects

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Clear, simple and thorough directions — we all want them. Then why are they so hard to give, and so hard to get?

Perhaps we can learn something from an organization with worldwide operations that issues thousands of directions daily to coordinate thousands of independent working...

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