Several years ago, Jeremy Moore was a guest speaker & gave a very interesting talk at our (non-military) organisation. His main topic was how to be a good leader and motivator, and he cited situations and examples from his career, including from his time as commandant of the RM school of music. After 45 minutes or so of speaking, he took questions from the audience, & one of these was “how did you deal with the bad leaders”?
All of JM’s other answers were interesting and insightful, but I remember he seemed to fumble about over this one, & he eventually asked the questioner whether he’d answered his question satisfactorily. “Sorry, not really”, was the response, “perhaps I wasn’t clear - I meant how did you deal with leaders who weren’t very good?”.
There was a short pause, & then the penny dropped, & JM responded: “Oh, sorry. I thought you said BAND leaders!”. There were maybe two hundred of us in the audience, & it brought the house down.