Leaders chronically assume that declaring an order just makes it happen

Evidence

Thus it is difficult to cure leaders completely of “Cadornism” 184 or the conviction that a thing will be done because the leader considers it just and reasonable that it should be done: if it is not done, the blame is put on those who “ought to have …”, etc. Thus too it is hard to root out the criminal habit of permitting useless sacrifices through neglect. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 654

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines ‘Cadornism’, a coined term from General Cadorna, for command that substitutes assertion for persuasion.