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What type of leader are you? Does the military force you to be one of the certain types of leaders mentioned?
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Lori Strain
I totally agree that is always situational but what style you use to approach different situations is what I think the article is asking.
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MAJ Ken Landgren
Lori Strain - It depends on how much control is required. If it was an office environment I want maximum input from my NCO's and flexibility to "own" their sections (democratic). If it is fire and maneuver I want a lot of control to orchestrate plans, formations, directions, react to contact, and to continue the mission (autocratic).
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I think that I am a Charismatic type of leader that leads by example. I hope no one thinks that I am tooting my own horn.
When one of my enlisted solders asked me why he had to dig a fighting position during a peacetime training situation I told him to start digging and that when the bullets fly its a little to late to make that hole.
He saw the logic in my explanation and then said why aren't you helping me with my defensive position. I told him I was digging mine over there along my section of the perimeter and if I helped him dig his he would have to help me dig mine.......then he'd be digging two fighting positions.
That's when his light bulb switched on and he decided he had better have overhead cover too. His was the best fighting position I have ever seen so we paraded the whole section by his position and got him the notoriety he so justly deserved.
When one of my enlisted solders asked me why he had to dig a fighting position during a peacetime training situation I told him to start digging and that when the bullets fly its a little to late to make that hole.
He saw the logic in my explanation and then said why aren't you helping me with my defensive position. I told him I was digging mine over there along my section of the perimeter and if I helped him dig his he would have to help me dig mine.......then he'd be digging two fighting positions.
That's when his light bulb switched on and he decided he had better have overhead cover too. His was the best fighting position I have ever seen so we paraded the whole section by his position and got him the notoriety he so justly deserved.
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