Mopsos

A quote from Dany Jacobs from the Netherlands, from an old issue of the FT, and which makes me wonder:

"This principle [of empowerment and delegation] is, however, much older and can be traced back to the Prussian General von Moltke, in the 19th century. Here it was called Auftragstaktik (command tactics). In 1888 it was already adopted as the official doctrine of the German army and really brought into practice (it really has to be trained in order to work). It was one of the root causes of the subsequent tactical flexibility of this army, which for a long time was not recognized by its enemies (because they wrongly thought that these germans suffered from an iron discipline and related inflexibility)"

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