Executive Leadership: Requisite Skills and Developmental Processes for Three- and Four-Star Assignments

Abstract

This report describes the investigation of work and skill requirements for three- and four-star general officers. Researchers conducted structured interviews and performed a content analysis to describe the nature of three- and four-star assignments, career paths, and developmental patterns. Requisite skills included consensus building, envisioning, climate setting, self-evaluating, sharing frames of reference, risk taking, and dealing with uncertainty. Implications for executive development are described in terms of level-specific organizational and individual requirements. Executive development, Stratified systems theory, Leadership skills, Career paths, General officers, SST.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1994
Accession Number
ADA285499

Entities

People

  • Kenneth W. Lucas
  • Patricia Harris

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Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Business Administration
  • Cognition
  • Doctrine
  • Human Behavior
  • International Organizations
  • International Relations
  • Management Personnel
  • Mental Processes
  • Military Education
  • Military Science
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personnel Management
  • Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Students
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

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  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.
  • Organizational Process Management (OPM).
  • Systems Analysis and Design