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Adopting Mission Command : Developing Leaders for a Superior Command Culture - Donald Vandergriff

Adopting Mission Command

Developing Leaders for a Superior Command Culture

By: Donald Vandergriff

Hardcover | 31 October 2019

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In September 2010, James G. Pierce, a retired U.S. Army colonel with the Strategic Studies Institute at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, published a study on Army organizational culture. Pierce postulated that "the ability of a professional organization to develop future leaders in a manner that perpetuates readiness to cope with future environmental and internal uncertainty depends on organizational culture." He found that today's U.S. Army leadership "may be inadequately prepared to lead the profession toward future success."

The need to prepare for future success dovetails with the use of the concepts of mission command. This book offers up a Set of recommendations, based on those mission command concepts, for adopting a superior command culture through education and training. Donald E. Vandergriff believes by implementing these recommendations across the Army, that other necessary and long-awaited reforms will take place.
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"Adopting Mission Command is an invaluable resource for anyone who leads or trains tactical organizations. Vandergriff notes that the Army has improved in past years. This volume will help further that positive trend." --Association of the United States Army (AUSA) "Is leadership culture the chicken or the egg? This book offers a partial but essential answer to that question." --Veterans Today "Vandergrift has produced a timely book that offers excellent insights on how to train and develop future military leaders. His book is recommended for military trainers, small unit leaders, and scholars interested in military doctrine." --Journal of Military History "Vandergriff's ideas on reforming tactical-level training will prove valuable to tactical-level leaders.... The author has offered the reader of Adopting Mission Command a practical handbook on how to train better leaders at the margins of mission command--where strategy and operations give way to tactics, and soldier life or death." --Modern War Institute "Adopting Mission Command is intended for serving military personnel and especially Directing Staff at officer training and educational institutions. It offers them practical guidance and concrete exercises to use in their teaching, as Vandergriff has done in advising the US military. The book will prove very useful to military educational establishments, which will almost certainly want to add it to their reading lists." --Michigan War Studies Review "Vandergriff's work is both informative and timely and founded upon proven developmental practices; it also incorporates historical examples as proof of concept. Recommended." --The Military Reviewer

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