This is a interesting talk held on UC Berkeley about the culture of firing officers during WWII: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxZWxxZ2JGE https://www.youtub

This is a interesting talk held on UC Berkeley about the culture of firing officers during WWII: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxZWxxZ2JGE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxZWxxZ2JGE Thomas E. Ricks main hypothesis is that the US failures in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq can be attributed to the culture of firing under-performing disappearing. It mirrors what I've seen in a lot of organizations as well, under-performing executives keeping their jobs when they shouldn't.