“The single greatest risk to your chain of command comes from the political animals in the group.People like this are inescapable, they spring up like weeds in any organisation. Not only are they out for themselves but they build factions to further their own agendas and fracture the cohesion you have built. Interpreting your commands for their own purposes, finding loopholes in any ambiguity, they relate invisible breaks in the chain. Try to weed them out before they arrive. In hiring your team, look at the candidates histories: Are they restless? Do they often move from place to place? That is a sign of the kind of ambition that will keep them from fitting in. When people seem to share your ideas exactly be wary: They are probably mirroring them to charm you.”