Resources

Taking Command: This article charts the early progress of a performance improvement programme based on Mission Command (Effects Based Leadership) principles. The programme was designed and delivered by a Sykes Fairbairn partner. The article was written and published by the clients.

Leadership in Context: This article was written by Sykes Fairbairn and published on the Training Pages website and Newsletter. It addresses a common shortfall of many commercial leadership development programmes that are displaced from the reality of the business environment where leadership must be practiced and developed.

Thinking Smart, Acting Smart: In this article published in RUSI's Procurement Focus in 2006, Stephen Bungay identifies four barriers to successful execution of business strategy that may be responsible for the MoD's patchy implementation of Smart Acquisition and outlines a hypothesis that the principles of mission command define the basic operating model needed by any business seeking to succeed in the modern environment.

The Road to Mission Command: In 2003 Stephen Bungay published this important article in British Army Review charting the  provenance of mission command, which stimulated a debate about the application of the principles behind a military command philosophy to a business environment.