This is Jockel Podcast number 237 with Echo Charles and me, Jockel Willink. Good evening, echo. Good evening.

So lots of dynamic things happening in the world right now and when there are lots of dynamic things happening,

leaders have to make things happen. Leaders have to assess, have to decide, have to plan.

And since all of us are going through these dynamic scenarios, I wanted to touch on something today.

It's called troop leading procedures. And the version that I'm going to cover is from an Army Techniques publication, or field manual,

3TAC 21.1, which is the name of that is Infantry Rifle Company. And it's a giant manual, 500 or something pages,

which we're not going to go through all that. Because there's an appendix in it, and appendix B is planning and preparing,

and it's, look, it's interesting. I've planned a lot of things in my life. And I've been in charge of a lot of planning in my life. I've been very lucky from that perspective.

And I was planning things before I knew any of this stuff, and I learned a lot of lessons along the way from that.

And then as I started to reflect back, and once I started kind of officially learning about how to plan,

I would look back and see how things made sense, and see some things that I would overlook, some things that I didn't overlook, some things that the documents overlook.

So thinking about this, and this is actually based on this massive process in the Army, or in the military, called the Military Decision Making Process,

which is this absolutely granular way to go through every possible element of a decision, of a big decision of how you're going to plan something.

So that is meant for higher elements above the company. So that's meant for battalion, brigade division.

When you have a whole staff of people that their job is to do these type of long decision making processes. So this right here is meant at the company level,

100 guys, 150 guys, 3 platoons worth of guys. That's what this is aimed at. And there's definitely some things in here to pay attention to, so that we can see if we're missing things, see if there's things we can add, see if there's some things we can do.

Some things we can take away from this, that will help us lead and plan and make better decisions.

And I'm not going to even go into massive depth, even this subsection, even this appendix has a lot of really granular information.

And that's one thing, you know, the Army does doctrine very well, and they go, they get into it, and they will get granular.

You will not miss anything if you follow their doctrine. But a lot of it is very specific to the military. But it's even worth looking at it.

You can get this on the interwebs, just as a PDF or whatever, this whole document, you can check this out. And it'll give you some indication of the level of granularity that they're planning to.

But we're not going to dive into all that. I'm going to try and keep it to the elements in here that are for the most part universally applicable in anyone that's planning.

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