REFLECT
Our Sloppy Over-Reliance on Texting
by Jack Hadley Farewelled by my unit and signed out on PCS leave, I stood at a German train station headed to the airport. Then my phone went ding! I reflexively glanced at it, feeling a small but noticeable tinge of stress. I was no longer a...
Don’t Look the Part, Be the Part
by Oren Abusch In the early spring of 2020, my Battalion ran a two-week marksmanship course. Each day, NCOs would go to the range to hone their shooting skills and, on one particular range day, I noticed an NCO kitted in the most expensive...
Information Quality’s Outsized Effect on Decision-Making
by Jack Hadley and Addison McLamb We all know bad decisions when we see them. For example, the commander who can’t ‘decide’ to stop talking at Friday formation, the NCO so entrenched in his ways he can’t accept the simple solution in front of his...
Opportunities and Applications for Executive Coaching in the Army
by BG Brett Funck It’s likely “coach, teach, and mentor” is a familiar phrase for those in the Army. However, understanding and differentiating the three items is less familiar. The Army is growing its exposure to executive coaching and...
Making the Case for an Army Peer-to-Peer Rewards Program
by Aaron “Butch” Pucetas The Army’s current rewards system is mostly top-down, leader-driven, and formal in nature. If a Soldier excels in an event or area, their supervisor recommends them for a reward and it is processed through the chain of...
Blind Intent and Vision-Impaired Guidance
By Joel P. Gleason Road Trips & Staff Meetings My wife and I have spent 20 years having the same discussion on road trips. As dinner approaches and the kids get hungry, we agree that we should stop at a restaurant but, as we drive past...
Lessons Learned Leading Zero-Experience Ad-Hoc Teams
by Brad Crosson Thanks to a recurring overseas exercise, I have had several opportunities to take about two dozen people who have never met before and quickly turn them into a functioning team. I measure my impromptu teams’ success by how...
The Cornerstone of Our Profession
By Marc Meybaum As we raise our right hand, our oath is expected to be, and must be, an honest commitment to serve. Honesty is called forth in the very first act of every military service member in our modern volunteer force. It is our first act of...
Forging Trust in Time for the Next Crisis
by Ted Delicath and Danny Kenny Trust serves as the foundation and fuel of our Team of Teams’ core capabilities. During a crisis, pre-established trust speeds and deepens a team’s response and impact. In contrast, an absence of trust creates...
Two Steps to Being a Good Teammate
by Tom Dull Unique to the military profession is that, upon entrance, the servicemember is instantly accepted and considered part of the team. Whether a scout team, infantry company, or brigade staff, soldiers are always a member of a team (and...
The Benefits of Being a Mentor
By Joe Byerly This is the third question, in a five question interview with author Robert Greene. Joe: You and the author Ryan Holiday have a well-known mentor/protege relationship. You’ve both written bestselling books and he’s been very vocal...
Our Dark Side and the Need for Self-Awareness
By Joe Byerly This is the second question, in a five question interview with author Robert Greene. Joe: In Chapter 9 Confront Your Dark Side of The Laws of Human Nature, you describe the darker aspects of our personalities. Do you think it’s...
Why Military Leaders Should Study Human Nature
By Joe Byerly This is the first question, in a five question interview with author Robert Greene. Joe: You’ve spent decades researching and writing about power, mastery, and war. In your latest book, The Laws of Human Nature, you have written what...
Examining Human Nature with Robert Greene
By: Joe Byerly Have you ever had a conversation with someone and walked away much smarter? This happened to me a few weeks ago. I had an opportunity to spend an hour talking to author Robert Greene. We discussed leadership, the dark side of human...
From the S3’s Desk: 10 lbs of Success in a 5lb Bag:
By Casey Dean Across the Army, orders are in hand. A new class of staff college graduates are getting ready to PCS, eager to use the skills and knowledge they acquired during their year in school. Several months ago I shared some thoughts on...
How to Enhance Your Daily Performance
By Tyler Inman What if I told you there was a performance enhancing substance that was safe, legal, and promised to increase your speed, power, strength, and coordination while simultaneously reducing your risk of injury? You must choose. This is...
How to Plan for Your Company Change of Command
By: Captain Andrew V. Jazbec A change of command is a critical time for an organization. Quite often, military blogs, social networks, and Center for Army Lessons Learned handbooks publish helpful lists outlining the first 90 days of command. As...
Should I get Life Insurance After the Military?
By Ashley Bunch No one ever said getting out of the military was easy, and to be frank, it would be a lie to say that it is. Separating from the military might be one of the hardest choices you make, next to joining. When you get out, suddenly all...
5 Ways to Maximize Your Broadening Experience at a Center of Excellence
By CPT Paul M. Guzman (AR) and CPT Duncan E. Braswell (IN) In Forrest Pogue’s George C. Marshall: Education of a General, Pogue explains how General George C. Marshall reflected on his experience training and educating officers, both at the U.S....
Sir Solitude: Leadership Lessons from Lieutenant General Sir Graeme Lamb
By Jason Criss Howk At a recent seminar with Mike Erwin (of Team RWB and The Positivity Project), he asked the audience to think about the greatest leader they had ever worked with, and to list the traits that made them effective. I did not have to...
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What Commanders Should Expect From Their S6
By: LTC Joshua Trimble Being a signal Soldier can have its difficulties. What is the unscientifically calculated most heard phrase at AAR’s? “Comms could have been better.” The Army’s communication gear, with its necessary security standards and...
Task Sifting: A Method of Team Management and Empowerment
by Lennard Salcedo Whether you are an assistant operations officer muddling through endless daily tasking orders or a company commander looking for opportunities to develop your platoon leaders, one key to success is the ability to assign tasks to...
From the S3’s Desk: 10 lbs of Success in a 5lb Bag:
By Casey Dean Across the Army, orders are in hand. A new class of staff college graduates are getting ready to PCS, eager to use the skills and knowledge they acquired during their year in school. Several months ago I shared some thoughts on...
Improving Our Army Reserve Force Through Augmentation at Combatant Commands
By Eero and Rose Keravuori With recent studies stating the Reserve needs to continually integrate with the Active Force to sustain the Reserve Component’s readiness, and given our recent focus on great power competition, America’s Army Reserve...
The Command Sergeant Major’s Place on the Battlefield
By LeVares Jackson Part of the job of a Squadron Command Sergeant Major (CSM) is determining where you should be on the battlefield.There are several doctrinal references that describes the duties and responsibilities. I found the one that best...
Do Soldiers Need Sleep?
By Tyler Inman Practice makes perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect. Perfect practice while routinely sleeping 8 hours per night makes perfect. Lethal squads and platoons are forged through hard, realistic training. To that end, my boss used to...
Invest in People, Not Systems
By Chad Foster Systems are valuable tools. They allow units to accomplish routine tasks in a routine manner. They also help ensure a measure of efficiency in organizational functions. The larger the organization, the more important it is to have...
What’s Really Wrong with Mission Command
By Josh Suthoff Recently, the Army Times published an interview with TRADOC Commander, GEN Stephen Townsend in which the primary point of discussion was that the decades-long Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) has eroded the decision making confidence...
Preventing a Crisis: Your Unit PMCS Checklist
By: Orlandon Howard Have you done any preventative maintenance on your unit lately? A crisis may be looming. Corporations deal with issues and crises all the time. They typically have a lot at stake if they spiral out control, namely, money. The...
UK Commanders Everyone Should Study
By: The Editors at the Wavell Room We’ve teamed up with From the Green Notebook for a leadership exercise: A General Exchange. The idea is simple. Just put forward 5 British generals that are worthy of study by our American cousins. In return we...
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