Real Leadership and the U.S. Army: Overcoming a Failure of Imagination to Conduct Adaptive Work

Abstract

Former Army Chief of Staff General Martin E. Dempsey has highlighted failure of imagination as a major obstacle in an organization s ability to learn, adapt, and find solutions to complex problems. As a former Commanding General of the Army s Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC), General Dempsey led the redesign of the Army s conceptual foundation. He and other Army officials, reflecting on the previous decade s conflicts, aggressively instituted a campaign of learning, which TRADOC describes as a broad set of initiatives designed to produce an Army capable of rapidly adapting to defeat unforeseen threats.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2011
Accession Number
ADA555138

Entities

People

  • John B. Richardson Iv

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

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  • Employment
  • Governments
  • Group Dynamics
  • Human Behavior
  • Improvised Explosive Devices
  • Joint Military Activities
  • Leadership
  • Military Science
  • National Security
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personality
  • Personnel Management
  • Psychology
  • Terrorists
  • United States Military Academy
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

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  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.