INTRODUCTION
There is a single touching moment in one of the defining battles of the Afghanistan War that, time and again, I think of when I am considering what it means to lead with the head and the heart. It is a moment which is easily missed; a mere second within a single battle that lasted seven hours.
This event would come to epitomise the leadership of then thirty-one-year-old United States Army captain Will Swenson. While the context of Swenson’s leadership is unlike anything most of us are likely to experience, the way he conducted himself offers a lesson for us all. Captain Swenson demonstrated what it means to lead with both the head and the heart, even in the midst of battle.
After hearing Swenson’s story mentioned in a 2014 TED talk ...
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