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The Bad Egg Syndrome
Having managed large groups of people in the civilian world I have found that the population generally breaks out like this:
-95% of the group wants to understand the rules and how they apply to their behavior and what is good/bad behavior. If you give them the right tools, the right training and treat them like adults they generally will comply with the rules.
-3% of the group will be the fence sitters - if it's a poorly managed environment they will go to the dark side and will be problem children. If the environment is managed effectively, they will follow the rules, but need to be closely monitored. You can't cut members of this group any slack.
-2% of the group are problem children. They still think they're in High School and every day is "Mess with the Teacher" day. It is the leadership's responsiblity to identify these people and get them out of the organization ruthlessly and quickly before they polute the population.
Maybe the numbers are significantly different in a military organization, but my guess is that the above logic probably will make sense there as well. My .02
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