Chug, I am with racedo. I stand by my position that the one in command is in absolute command. Have you never heard your boss ever say that boss say it is not a democracy.
Another VSO that again went against advice was Boy Browning. I am sure there are many other instance where operations, both successful and unsuccessful, were forced through against advice.
Staffs might by sycophantic (Kim Jong-Un's spring to mind) or give best and unequivocal advice but still ignores. Dowding, Park, and Leigh-Mallory spring to mind although in that case is was one 2* disagreeing with the other.
Where I would agree with you is that Pound was wrong and should have been over-ruled but even at that exalted level it would have been a fine line between incapacity and mutiny.