Strategic Military Leaders - Leading Tomorrow

Abstract

The global environment is volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous. In the military, where leaders have to deal with the unforeseen and where men are demanded to die if necessary to fulfill their tasks, strategic military leadership remains the most baffling of the arts. Four key leadership competencies stand out. We need strategic leaders who are good at doing the right things and doing things right leaders who have the mental agility to choose the correct goals to achieve, the social intelligence to inspire his team towards those goals, the robustness/mental toughness to stay the course and to conduct their business within the bounds of ethics. This paper strives to define the four strategic leadership competencies and offers developmental modalities to grow and develop the heartware of the military.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 29, 2008
Accession Number
ADA481318

Entities

People

  • Ng W. Kit

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Case Studies
  • Cognition
  • Education
  • Human Behavior
  • Human Resources
  • Leadership
  • Lessons Learned
  • Military Personnel
  • Motivation
  • Personality
  • Psychology
  • Reasoning
  • Students
  • Thinking
  • Training
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Military Leadership and Professional Education.
  • Systems Analysis and Design