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Years later, after Grove had learned to appreciate this, he read Peter Drucker’s The Practice of Management, which described the ideal chief executive as an outside person, an inside person, and a person of action. Grove realized that instead of being embodied in one person, such traits could exist in a leadership team. That was the case at Intel,

In January 1942, two memoranda arrived on Holcomb’s desk within a week of each other suggesting the creation of Marine Corps commandos. The first was from his superior, Admiral Ernest J. King, the recently appointed Chief of Naval Operations. As enamored with defense as he was with temperance—“When they get in trouble they send for the sons-of-bitc

Marshall presented his proposal when the Combined Chiefs met on the afternoon of Christmas Day. “I am convinced,” he said, “that there must be one man in command of the entire theater—air, ground, and ships. We cannot manage by cooperation. Human frailties are such that there would be emphatic unwillingness to place portions of troops under another

shoulder. So, upon receipt of Joy’s directive, Doyle immediately summoned the Navy complement to his Mobile Training Team of Marines, a ten-man squad of UDT 3 swimmers. It’s worth noting that Doyle did not ask if such a mission was within their purview.

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On July 24, less than a month after the North Korean invasion, Joy tasked Rear Admiral James Doyle, the commander of Amphibious Group One, to order his Marine Corps cadre in Mobile Training Team Able (MTTA) to stop training US Army soldiers in vehicle waterproofing, landing craft embarkation, and all the skills necessary to execute another D-Day, a

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