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Managing Chaos “In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity” -Sun Tzu During my first tour during Operation Iraqi Freedom (Mosul, Iraq), I was a Quick Reaction Force (QRF) team leader. Throughout our operations, the QRF team was thrown into chaotic, stressful, uncertain, rapidly evolving situations. Nevertheless, as the QRF team leader, I had […]
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The question is usually asked should I be a manager or a leader. Yet, every successful organization has both managers and leaders, which I will explain. “You manage things; you lead people.” – General Colin Powell The United States Army publication on leadership (ADP_6_22) emphasizes that leadership and management cover the actions to influence, motivate, […]
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Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or conclude you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. – Retired Four-Star General & U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell. Throughout my […]
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In military and law enforcement training, individuals must go through rigorous training scenarios in which they are subjected to potentially life-threatening situations. Training must be demanding and simulate mission conditions as much as possible while keeping safety in mind. These scenarios are supposed to measure a person’s ability to (not only react to save their […]
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Retired General Stanley McChrystal (best known for his command of Joint Special Operations Command in Iraq) wrote a book called Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World in which he emphasized that we live in “a rapidly changing world, marked with increased speed and dense interdependences, meaning that organizations everywhere are […]
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