all animals, including humans, need to see the connection between action and consequence in order to learn or react appropriately. - Jocko Willink

If you don’t understand or believe in the decisions coming down from your leadership, it is up to you to ask questions until you understand how and why those decisions are being made. Not knowing the why prohibits you from believing in the mission. When you are in a leadership position, that is a recipe for failure, and it is unacceptable. As a leader, you must believe.

not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate.

Regardless of how you think an operation is going to unfold,” I answered, “the enemy gets their say as well — and they are going to do something to disrupt it. When something goes wrong — and it eventually does — complex plans add to confusion, which can compound into disaster. Almost no mission ever goes according to plan. There are simply too many variables to deal with.