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Martin Horton on why it is essential to get to grips with poor performance

A former commander-in-chief of the Reichswehr [later to become the Wehrmacht], General Kurt Freiherr von Hammerstein-Equord, famously observed: ‘I divide my officers into four classes – the clever, the lazy, the industrious, and the stupid.

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