The business landscape is full of managers, but short on leaders, explains Angus Fletcher, in an article for Harvard Business Review.
Fletcher breaks down four main root causes of leadership failure: failure of initiative, failure of emotional confidence, failure of imagination, and failure of strategic vision. He then outlines strategies and solutions that can help combat these patterns.
Perhaps the most important difference in how Special Ops train their leadership is their focus on coaching the brain to learn from failure and focus on building stress endurance before anything goes wrong, something that can be immensely beneficial to the high stress world of business leadership.
Read on to learn more.
Source: https://hbr.org/2025/08/lessons-from-u-s-army-special-ops-on-becoming-a-leader
