10-1 | What is a General? - People follow 'resolve', not the 'correct answer' - (1/3)

A general is someone who takes responsibility for decisions.
That alone changes how serious people are.

Why do people follow someone with their lives on the line?
It is not because that person knows the correct answer.

It is because they bear the burden of the decision.

Generals in the Sengoku period were
praised if they won, and their entire clan was destroyed if they lost.
There were no excuses and no do-overs.

That is why the retainers understood:
that to "follow this person's decision" meant
entrusting them with your own life.

The Battle of Okehazama

A symbolic example of this
is the Battle of Okehazama in 1560.

Oda Nobunaga of Owari had about 3,000 soldiers.
Against them, the Imagawa Yoshimoto army had 25,000.
The difference in military strength was obvious,
and everyone thought, "There is no way to win."

However, Nobunaga,
taking only a few close attendants, headed for Atsuta Shrine.

Seeing that,
the retainers followed him, not out of logic,
but as if pushed by his intensity.

Waiting for the chance to win

Nobunaga understood that he was at a disadvantage
even before the battle began.

That is precisely why
he abandoned the "correct answer" of a head-on collision.

He kept monitoring the movements of the Imagawa army,
and received information that in the valley of Okehazama,
the entire army was resting in a long, stretched-out formation.

Furthermore,
not missing the change in weather—a heavy downpour—
Nobunaga decided "the chance of a lifetime has arrived" and launched a surprise attack all at once.

He could not win if he fought the 25,000-strong army head-on.
However, at the moment they were stretched out and resting,

the difference in military strength would shrink instantly.He aimed for only one thing.

"Yoshimoto's head."
Serious resolve and

an extremely simple decision.
That

made a miraculous victory a reality.

In a critical battle,
the general himself goes to the front lines
and takes responsibility for decisions at the very front.

People follow the weight of that resolve and
the lack of hesitation in their decisions.
This is not just a story from the Sengoku period.

People


follow those who do not run away from decisions, not those who talk about the correct answer
.That is the true nature of what a "general" is.

What is a general?

In modern organizations,
the reason people do not move when decisions are light is clear.

• Decisions are scattered
• No one knows who decided
• Responsibility is ambiguous even if there is a failure
• Results are stolen even if there is a success

In this state, people cannot be serious.

People
do not give their all in an organization where they do not know where the decisions that entrust their lives lie.
What is a general?

It is
someone who takes responsibility for decisions.That alone changes how serious people are.

Next,
I will explain about
the general to whom people entrusted their lives
- Even without money, people will risk their lives -

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