Since you’re short on time and attention, here’s my down and dirty. Perspective of someone who was an S1 from 2LT to a CPT, worked with 5 different headquarters commanders:

1 – Please. PLEASE. Let the staff primaries do their job.  They WILL need your guidance (don’t let them fool you otherwise) – maybe as a peer, maybe as a superior, maybe for…[Read more]

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Intangible: thanking Soldiers for a specific act they did goes farther than “thanks for all your hard work”. “Hey, thanks to your attention to detail working on X spreadsheet/vehicles/etc, we’re the first done in the BN…or, the Boss personally said s/he was impressed with the work, and I told them you were taking the lead on this.  Your…[Read more]

Intangible: thanking Soldiers for a specific act they did goes farther than “thanks for all your hard work”. “Hey, thanks to your attention to detail working on X spreadsheet/vehicles/etc, we’re the first done in the BN…or, the Boss personally said s/he was impressed with the work, and I told them you were taking the lead on this.  Your…[Read more]

Here’s a few more ideas:

“Bad Leadership” by Barbara Kellerman – https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/185913.Bad_Leadership

“Followership” by Barbar Kellerman – https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2438898.Followership?from_search=true

‘Imbeciles’ by Adam Cohen – details the eugenics movement in the US in 1920’s, which is both fascinating to…[Read more]

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Awesome, thank you sir!

Thank you all for your responses. I strongly believe that this will not only help me be successful but will also help me guide my peers when they race the same question.

Thank you al for your imput

Wendy,

Thanks for pointing this out. It didn’t load the first time and I think it should be there now. Enjoy and good luck!

Micah