Recommended reading: Drake Bennett’s Boston Globe piece tying together Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s flameout and the failure of the French World Cup team.
The connection: the importance in cooperative ventures — like war and team sports — of having a clear hierarchy.
Writes Bennett: “In certain settings, having a clear hierarchy makes us more comfortable, more productive, and happier, even when our own place in it is an inferior one. In one intriguing finding, NBA basketball teams on which large salary differentials separate the stars from the utility players actually play better and more selflessly than their more egalitarian rivals.”
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/06/27/out_of_line/
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