Corps business

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• marcusf · Apr 23, 2012 · Recommends

  There's a book on how the marines does management called Corps Business [1], it makes a pretty decent argument for implementing some stuff from the armed forces, eg. adaption, steering by objective, breeding culture etc. It was a while since I read it, but I remember that…

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• harryf · Mar 10, 2019 · Recommends

  …to convince you, I’ll just say Google engages Stuart Diamond to trail engineers in negotiation. There’s a talk by him here at Google that might convince - https://youtu.be/2QtZ-vObJrk - The other is “Corps Business” - https://www.amazon.com/Corps-Business-Management-Principles-... - about how the US Marines do management. The big thing you can get some this book is expressing projects and tasks in terms of the _end…

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• harryf · Oct 9, 2019 · Recommends

  A great read "Corps Business: The 30 Management Principles of the U.S. Marines" ( https://www.amazon.com/Corps-Business-Management-Principles-... ) and where it talks about communicating the "End State" of a mission instead of the…

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• harryf · Sep 7, 2020 · Recommends

  If I remember right Corps Business talks about this https://www.amazon.com/Corps-Business-Management-Principles-... ...otherwise - being a bit of a history nerd - I’ve run into the idea many times in discussion of how military units have…

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• aag · Feb 11, 2024 · Recommends

  Bizarrely, I found the book Corps Business, by Freedman, to be useful. It's about how the US Marine Corps thinks about leadership. No, he doesn't tell you to shout at people. But he does show how they lead in more difficult circumstances than…

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• harryf · Aug 26, 2018 · Mentions

  …IMO is we're using legacy approaches to organising ourselves groups that stems from military theory of the 18th century - that most armies themselves have now moved beyond - see https://www.amazon.com/Corps-Business-Management-Principles-.... We need smarter ways to organise and we probably need AI at some level to help us scale up to higher volumes of effective decision making.

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• alexpotato · Sep 28, 2021 · Mentions

  I recently read the book Corps Business (as in Marine Corps) and this tracks with how the Marines changed their organizational command structures post Vietnam. For example, tactical decision making went down the chain of command as the thought…

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• alexpotato · Aug 31, 2026 · Mentions

  The author uses the military as an example of top down and that is true in many cases. However, after reading the book Corps Business [0] about the United States Marine Corps, you realize that they are VERY big into having a top level mission but almost all of the decision making is pushed down to the lowest levels. In fact, if they…

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