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Leaders vs Managers: Adaptive Leaders Pursue Change; Old Style Managers Cling To The Past

Stan Truskie, Ph.D. asked: Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates recently criticized the US military for not doing enough to support soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, singling out the Air Force for adapting too slowly to the new enemies on those battlefields. He blamed military leaders who are “stuck in old ways of doing business”. That […]