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Leadership in Action: In Focus - Leadership Styles - Comparing Military and Business Leaders
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Leadership in Action: In Focus - Leadership Styles - Comparing Military and Business Leaders

by Walter F. Ulmer Jr.
April 2005
Intermediate to advanced
2 pages
9m
English
Center for Creative Leadership
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In general, leadership in the military is different. (There are obviously some situations of dramatically different context.) But the differences are rarely fundamental, and are easily overstated. Whether in business or in the military, people rise to positions of high responsibility basically through the long-term demonstration of those skills and behaviors essential to organizational productivity and in harmony with the culture. Good leaders and good cultures have a remarkable similarity across the broad range of organizations within American society.

There is one additional factor that influences leadership in the military. It's the obvious, but significant, fact that soldiers are expected to die if necessary to accomplish the ...

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ISBN: 9781604913132