December 2021

Leaders!

The deadlines for two of our signature programs are approaching. If you’d like to give a great gift to a hard-working junior officer, consider nominating him/her for the CJO 30 Under 30 Leader Developer Award!  If you’d like to join the team as a non-resident Leadership Fellow, you can learn about how to apply here.

Now on to our regular update-

Highlights from the past month

• Lost and Found: Junior Leader Counseling in the Army
• Innovating the Bureaucracy from a Junior Officer’s Perspective
• Make Room for the Antenna: Three Principles of Performance that Breed Success for Junior Officers
• A Soldier’s Death – A Leader’s Challenge
• Building Resilience Through the Stoic Philosophy

Coming up

Some things we have in the works that you’ll see in the weeks ahead on the CJO website:

• Leading With More Than the Rank on Your Chest
• Don’t Forget the Tactical and Technical – An Interview with COL Andrew Saslav
• Army Aviation: Alternatives to the 10-year Service Obligation

Other posts of interest

While we run/focus on the Center for Junior Officers site, we know there is a lot of other great content out there that can help junior officers in their pursuits.  Are you a fan of the Apple TV series Ted Lasso?  A lot of folks have been writing about the leadership lessons from the show.  While we don’t think a fictional TV character is necessarily “proof” of effective leadership, we found these articles and podcasts to be thought generating and submit they may be worth your time.

• Ted Lasso is reinventing leadership and proving that nice leaders can (and should) finish first
• Is Ted Lasso a great leader?
• How Ted Lasso explains leadership (podcast)
• 5 times Ted Lasso reminded us what great leadership looks like

In closing

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Until next month – lead well my friends!