Not only learn from the past, but be open to learn from every source imaginable, which is far easier to do today than ever before.

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My advice to management anywhere is to be open to what your teams can learn from the military and apply the following five lessons.

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You may learn far more from your employees than they learn from you so be open to their ideas.

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We have to learn how to compromise a lock that appears (and is supposed to be) impossible to open without the correct key or code.

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Unless you collaborate, have open dialogue and slow down to learn together, complex challenges will continue to be addressed with a strictly technical "fix-it fast" mentality.

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