‘AC compared “leadership to driving a ‘Zamboni’, thereby calling into question my decades-long tendency to emphasize the innate qualities of leaders over things that can be taught”.
I don’t know about that, nor will I question your innate quality emphasis - I agree actually. What is STRONG must be emphasized.
Here is the tangent I bought up on Austin Caroe’s Zamboni post;
WHO? Who emphasizes the quality or for that matter teaches it to a platoon leader. The US Army has a very systemically bad personnel system and lack of training for LT/Platoon leader, that is 2LT/O1. It’s teach at school, throw them in see who floats.
This is the only job I know- besides sales and perhaps office bee worker where this is done.
Considering the dangers, it should be an apprentice/senior mentor or Senior Pilot/ Junior Pilot type learning. I know other armies don’t do this, in the British army the Platoon Commander is a Captain, Company Commander a Major and they learn from the Senior Officer. We the army need to get away from the industrial mindset of people are cogs.
I gather the Marines may be different, certainly other militaries.
‘AC compared “leadership to driving a ‘Zamboni’, thereby calling into question my decades-long tendency to emphasize the innate qualities of leaders over things that can be taught”.
I don’t know about that, nor will I question your innate quality emphasis - I agree actually. What is STRONG must be emphasized.
Here is the tangent I bought up on Austin Caroe’s Zamboni post;
WHO? Who emphasizes the quality or for that matter teaches it to a platoon leader. The US Army has a very systemically bad personnel system and lack of training for LT/Platoon leader, that is 2LT/O1. It’s teach at school, throw them in see who floats.
This is the only job I know- besides sales and perhaps office bee worker where this is done.
Considering the dangers, it should be an apprentice/senior mentor or Senior Pilot/ Junior Pilot type learning. I know other armies don’t do this, in the British army the Platoon Commander is a Captain, Company Commander a Major and they learn from the Senior Officer. We the army need to get away from the industrial mindset of people are cogs.
I gather the Marines may be different, certainly other militaries.
Thanks for the mention. AI is a powerful and rapidly evolving tool, we should all learn it.
A lot of AI now at least LLM is free, adopt early all!