The Leadership Enigma

062: Navigating The Grey Space | Major General Tom Copinger-Symes

July 25, 2021 Adam Pacifico Episode 62
The Leadership Enigma
062: Navigating The Grey Space | Major General Tom Copinger-Symes
Show Notes

Major General Tom Copinger-Symes is the Director for Military Digitalisation for the UK Strategic Command and a 2 Star General in the British Army. In this insight packed episode, Tom talks about the challenge of balancing the deluge of technical and psychological information in a critical environment so as to create, process and distribute valuable data and insight to those who most need it. 
We discuss how flattening an organisation (even the army) can help with empowering those closest to the problem and how the concepts of 'hovercraft leadership', 'mission command', 'neuro diversity' and 'rose pettling' have all assisted Tom navigate a variety of senior leadership roles over three decades in the military. 

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