I'll basically agree with you LEM,
As too often, I have seen captains unable too say NO, no to the rushed approach,or.. or, or even no to the stupid rostering that are sometime the initial step on the dreaded path to a incident.
Must I confess, to my whole shame, that I have sometime been one of them? It's soo much easier too yield that to fight everybody alone because nowadays safety seems an obscene word with money the only motto.
But the
"I am in command and that's the way I'll do it..." attitude can easily backfire
Authoritarism should (in my opinon) be banned from the cockit with the weakness of character you denonced.
All is a question of balance and circumstances,
Never said it was an easy job
