Winning the National Security AI Competition: A Practical Guide for Government and Industry Leaders

© The Author(s), under exclusive license to APress Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2023

C. Whitlock, F. StricklandWinning the National Security AI Competitionhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8814-6_7

7. Leading the People

Chris Whitlock¹   and Frank Strickland²

(1)

Colorado Springs, CO, USA

(2)

Centreville, VA, USA

 

“A leader is someone whom people will follow to places they would not go alone.”

—Joel Barker (Futurist, Author, Filmmaker)

“Leadership is a complex system of relationships between leaders and followers, in a particular context, that provides meaning to its members.”

—General (retired) Stan McChrystal, Jeff Eggers, Jason Mangone

Leaders: Myth and Reality (Portfolio Penguin; 2018)

Summary

Leading AI teams means that you are leading practitioners ...