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If you are hired to follow, then you are supposed to follow. You can give advice and suggestions but you have to fall in line when an executive decision is made. That's how a team works, otherwise you aren't doing your job.

If you're hired to lead. Then you need to make decisions and you're responsible for the success and failure of those decisions. You should have profound beliefs about why you make your decisions but also be able to take advice and suggestions, but at the end of the day, the success or failure is on your responsibility, not the advice givers - thus you always have the right to not act on others advice and suggestions.

It's important to know what your role is in any organisation.

I actually like this 1995 movie Crimson Tide that illustrates these principles while exploring moral ambiguities and procedural issues while under huge amount of stress where the lives of not only men in the sub is at stake, but the lives of whole nations when it comes to making decisions and when it is a good time to challenge those decisions.




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