Slightly OT: Dividing soldiers

[Raellus]

Originally Posted by copeab

"The man who is clever and lazy however is for the very highest command; he has the temperament and nerves to deal with all situations."

-- General Kurt Von Hammerstein-Equord, German Army (1933)

Man, I'm in the wrong business, then. I should have gone to West Point!

[pmulcahy11b]

The General forgot one type of officer: the lazy ones who are clever enough to make it look like every good idea was theirs, and every bad idea was someone else's fault.

[Adm.Lee]

I've seen that before, I think it was in Clausewitz, and I think it was the other way around.

Smart/ambitious: Make them unit leaders

Smart/unambitious: Make them staff officers for the leaders.

Dumb/unambitious: leave them alone, on their own they will find a quiet out-of-the-way spot where they can't do much harm.

Dumb/ambitious: get rid of them before they kill someone!

[CStock88]

Of course, all of these can also be applied to every single person I have every worked with in the last 6 six years of being a grocer.

[pmulcahy11b]

This has nothing to do with the topic, actually, but when I first read the name of this thread, the first thing that popped into my head was the story of Solomon and the baby...