Leadership and Management: Command Philosophy Vice Executive Philosophy

Abstract

With the services shifting toward the management aspect of running a peacetime force vice the leadership role, the services face a dilemma of sorts; do we teach and stress management of systems or do we concentrate on producing leaders. This study seeks to discover what the difference is between leadership and management training as viewed both by business and the military. It studies contemporary leadership models and compares/contrasts two large businesses with the US Army and US Air Force. The study looks at the way modern business trains its leaders and at the way the services train their leaders in leadership and management. It suggests ways to improve and evaluate military training in leadership, management, and technical proficiency and concludes with several recommendations for senior army leaders to consider in order to improve leadership/management systems in the services.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 15, 1989
Accession Number
ADA209738

Entities

People

  • Gary L. Gresh

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

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Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Behavioral Sciences
  • Commerce
  • Doctrine
  • Executives
  • Management Personnel
  • Management Training
  • Military Training
  • Personnel Management
  • Philosophy
  • Psychology
  • Questionnaires
  • Schools
  • Students
  • Surveys
  • Training
  • War Colleges

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  • Military Leadership and Professional Education.