You have to get that minutes overtime out of your men. And, the only way to get it is by giving them the whole of your own time and thought and care. If you do this. Officers are there to lead Then Slim relates at one critical point in the retreat in a jungle clearing he came across a unit which was in a bad way. They were just as exhausted as their men, but that isn't my point.
Officers are there to lead.
I tell you, therefore, as officers, that you will neither eat, nor drink, nor sleep, nor smoke, nor even sit down until you have personally seen that your men have done those things. If you will do this for them, they will follow you to the end of the world. And, if you do not, I will break you. The General stepped down from the ammunition box and replaced his hat. The division rose as one man, and cheered him.