Perhaps you have dreamed of mutiny. Perhaps you serve under a boss whose grasp of what is important to the organization’s success and how to achieve it is so shaky that he or she should be dispatched as an incompetent. Or maybe that leader’s treatment of subordinates is so uncaring as to be abusive. If the situation is so bad that you are actually plotting the insurrection, it’s a good moment to ask: When do mutinies actually succeed?
Is it Time for Mutiny?
A close study of the real thing — seafarers’ insurrections during the Age of Discovery — might help you decide.
April 09, 2013
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