Looking-glass leadership
By: Patrick Mileham
Contributors: Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. Central Library
Series: Sandhurst occasional papers -- no. 14; Sandhurst occasional paper -- no. 14.
Publisher: Central Library, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Sandhurst
Language: eng
Number of pages: 19
ISBN-13: 9781907628139
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Leadership; Command of troops
Description: Despite recognizing intuitively that environments shift, over the past dozen years the British Army has tried to write normative theory, something like doctrine, on what is an abstract noun, leadership. The exercise has so far failed. Management gurus have devised scores, hundreds, and thousands of theories, principles, models, frameworks and templates, trying to find something like the exact truth about leading. Like traditional military plans, many of them do not long survive the first lethal encounter with the enemy, particularly in the reality of the work of the armed forces.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: 'Something's going to happen'; title: Chaos and complexity; title: Contemporary military operations; title: Questions for leaders; title: Howard Gardner's research; title: Action-centered leadership : John Adair; title: The search for integrity; title: Synthesis.