Leadership 101

Abstract

For the last 8 years, I have been a faculty member in the Defense Acquisition Universitys Executive Leadership and Coaching programs, and I thought it would be worthwhile to share our students definition of the leaders role in establishing and running extraordinary teams. The journey to gather the data started with a classroom discussion. I had arranged for a guest speaker who had led several successful programs, and during my introduction I started to tell a story about when he assumed command of a failing missile program. One of his first acts was placing PowerPoint slides in every cubicle that read, Be on contract by July. He continued to emphasize this point over the next few days, individually asking each team member, How is what you are working on right now helping this team get on contract by July? At this point, a Marine Corps colonel stopped me and said: Scott, this is Leadership 101. Please dont tell me that is what we will be focusing on this morning.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2015
Accession Number
AD1016269

Entities

People

  • Scott Reynolds

Organizations

  • Defense Acquisition University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Boundaries
  • Coast Guard
  • Contracts
  • Doctrine
  • Environment
  • Executives
  • Human Behavior
  • Leadership
  • Marine Corps
  • Military Acquisition
  • Shipping
  • Standards
  • Students
  • Tactical Aircraft
  • United States

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • STEM Education
  • Systems Analysis and Design