First Person Singular.(Brief Article)

From Megachange: How Today's Leading Companies Have Transformed Their Workforces, by William F. Joyce, Free Press, New York, 1999.

The commander's intentions process required each commander to write down what he intended to do.... This was to be written in the first person and confined to one or two pages. It might say something like "After landing, I intend to move my troops to the west to establish a base of operations in the town of Rouen. After accomplishing this, I will use this secure base of operations to begin to drive toward Berlin," and so on.

There are several interesting things about this first step in the commander's intentions process. First, …