| They stressed the importance of understanding finance, the abilities required to influence decisions, the need to establish a chain of command. |
| Success depends on an identity of goals between soldiers and their political masters, and a clear chain of command. |
| Soldiers wishing to air their views through letters to the editor have access to the newspaper without using the chain of command. |
| A friend named Jim is an executive moving up in the chain of command of a large corporation. |
| He was conspiratorial, possessing mysterious juice with the ownership, able to operate completely outside the normal chain of command. |
| A chain of command linking a leader with a foot soldier is called a maximal chain in the ordered set. |
