Fostering Creative Thinking in the Institutional Army
Abstract
The United States military leadership, more specifically the US Army, identified developing creative thinkers as an essential component to the concept of winning in a complex world. This is the case because the complexity of the security environment requires agile and adaptive leaders. In order to indoctrinate creative thinking across the force, the Army must leverage professional military education from its institutional side. Of the institution programs, the resident Command and General Staff Officer Course educates the largest body of field grade officers at one time. Thus several questions arise: Does CGSOC foster creative thinking in its resident students? What are the critical factors in fostering creative thinking? How does CGSC use doctrine, organizational structure, training, leadership development and education, personnel, facilities, and policies foster creative thinking? These questions will be explored along with a recommendation of an approach to evaluate how organizations foster creative thinking.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 10, 2016
- Accession Number
- AD1020051
Entities
People
- Nicholas J. Hitt
Organizations
- United States Army Command and General Staff College