TY - BOOK AU - PAPARONE Christopher R AU - ANDERSON Ruth A AU - McDANIEL Reuben R TI - Where military professionalism meets complexity science PY - 2008/// KW - COMPLEX ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS KW - LEADERSHIP KW - MILITARY LEADERSHIP KW - PROFESSIONALISM N2 - This article challenges the traditional model of hierarchical strategic leadership that currently dominates the military profession, and proposes complex adaptive systems (CAS) as a more appropriate alternative. Identifies leadership tasks - such as relationship building, improvising, learning, complicating - that match this model, and contrasts them with traditional tasks such as standardization, simplification, knowing, commanding and controlling UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177%2F0095327X07310337 ER -