Cunningham often minimized his own successes and credited the team around him. He defended subordinates' status and capabilities while asking them to sustain unusually high operational energy. His preferred plans divided work into simple parallel tasks instead of elaborate sequences with many dependent phases. Each British force received a manageable assignment, while the combined pattern remained difficult for an opponent to read.
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Team leadership and many simple plans
Cunningham credited his team and preferred numerous straightforward operations in parallel, making execution manageable while obscuring the overall pattern from opponents.