摘要：The U.S. Army has been fighting the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq for over 10 years and in the process produced a new military doctrine called mission command. This doctrine acknowledges one of Colin Powell’s principles of leadership that “the commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proven otherwise” (Powell, n.d.). Mission command doctrine was conceived from a wartime environment to allow followers in the field to act according to the dictates of the situation on the ground, giving them maximum discretion. Discretion is defined as “the power or right to decide or act according to one’s own judgment, freedom of judgment, or choice” (www.merriam-webster.com). Leaders determine the type of follower they have in their organization by how much discretion they give their subordinates and what their subordinates do with it. Leaders who are toxic or micromanage do not allow their followers discretion in their day-to-day activities.
