Posted on Mar 9, 2014
I take great pride in being the best NCO that I can be.
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I'm sick and tired of seeing MY NCO CORP being diluted with substandard personnel. Here is my question(s) "Why is it that some people who aspire to be Non Commissioned Officers, work like crazy to get there and then forget where they came from? Why is it that these substandard people seem to treat Soldiers poorly and think it's ok rather than treating them the way they should be treated?
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I can speak to one cause-- I had a Team leader who came up "back in the day" and got treated like crud. He told us that since that's how he came up, that's how he would treat everyone else.
This is an example of perpetuating toxic leadership. Just because you might have had it rough, or been treated poorly, that is NOT an excuse to treat others the same way. This only keeps the cycle going.
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SFC Beauford:
I have learned a lot from bad leaders-- what NOT to do, what what "guy" NOT to be.
I was a 5 year SPC (mainly because of bad leadership who held me back), so I will always remember what being an E-4 is all about, and I will never forget where I came from.
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This might help. It's one theory anyway...
There have a number of posts regarding incompetence/misbehavior in our senior leadership, and the military in general. As a possible explanation, I present to you, the Peter Principle. I've alwa...
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