“Leadership is deliberate: You don’t accidentally have successful teams.”
Lieutenant General (ret) Frank Kearney, US Army
This short read about leadership lessons from Lieutenant General Frank Kearney is worth a few minutes. LTG Kearney was speaking t0 business leaders at the Thayer Leader Development Group at West Point and explained several of the basic military leadership principles. His thoughts are a good reminder to do the basics, which we sometimes take for granted.
A few of them are:
- “You have a responsibility to everyone you bring into an organization and that means having the courage to give candid feedback.”
- Effective communication is a three-part process: Issue Orders, Backbrief, and Refine Guidance
- “You have to know what right looks like for each role in the organization.”
This article was originally published by Jenna Goudreau at Business Insider online on May 27, 2014.