We had a term in the Airborne community called "Little Groups of Paratroopers"; frequently you'd be split up from your direct team but would find small groups o

We had a term in the Airborne community called "Little Groups of Paratroopers"; frequently you'd be split up from your direct team but would find small groups of others scattered across the drop zone. We'd work off of "Commanders Intent" which was the goal or mission that needed to be done. There would be a plan to accomplish that goal, but it was pragmatic in that if we knew what good looked like, constant management wasn't needed for motivated troops. You see a similar thing in Pragmatic Marketing's "Enlightened Teams" and other frameworks. I dont have empirical data to back it up, but I believe that you get the results because of all the small things that teams take to get to good because of that higher level objective. I think Ben Horowitz's talk about these small here is golden: https://a16z.com/2011/11/13/lead-bullets/ https://a16z.com/2011/11/13/lead-bullets/