Where military professionalism meets complexity science / Christopher R Paparone, Ruth A Anderson, and Reuben R McDaniel
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Armed Forces & Society Vol 34 No 3, April 2008, pp.433-449 (3)Summary: 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.
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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.
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