How I Got Promoted by Nearly Staging a Mutiny

Leadership lessons learned by doing things the wrong way

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I’d had enough. There we were. Again. Just sitting there. Another day of doing nothing. My blood was slowly starting to boil.

I was a Lance Corporal in the Marine Corps in charge of four other Marines. It was one of my first times officially in charge of anyone. I…