In this podcast Colonel Gill Wilkinson helps us to get behind the language of 'Mission command' and 'commander's intent', to show how clarity of purpose, authority, responsibility and accountability actually creates the conditions for disciplined and productive initiative that is often missing in organisations where leaders' fear to accept the authority that their role provides.

Interestingly Gill pointed out that the motto of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, where until recently she was Deputy Commander (Reserves) reads 'Serve to Lead'.