Management From The Corps
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I want to use this opportunity to discuss two things, both near and dear to my heart; The United States Marine Corps and Management. Throughout this paper I want to focus on how I think civilians can learn to be better managers by using what that corps has established over it’s illustrious 223 y ....
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.... Each Marine has three responsibilities. In our organizational structure, a Corporal has a three-person fire team; a Sergeant has a squad of three fire teams; and a Staff Sergeant has a platoon of three squads; and so on, up to the Colonels and Generals.
For the typical business, decentralizing and flattening organizational structure involves “gutting several layers of management, often leaving managers overwhelmed with as many as a dozen direct subordinates” (Freedman). In contra ....
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