Leadership in the United States Army

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This paper looks at how, in their book, "The Leadership Challenge: How to Get Extraordinary Things Done in Organizations" (1987), J. M. Kouzes and B. Z. Posner developed their model of effective leadership comprised of the following five components: Challenging the process, inspiring a shared vision, enabling others to act, modeling the way, and encouraging the heart. Strategic recommendations for the improvement of the Army are presented in the paper in terms of these five practices of exemplary leadership.

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"According to Rosenbach and Taylor (2000), "There continues to be a quest for understanding leadership. Historians search for clues that will help us understand how leaders are defined and what they do. Much of their work centers on the military and its leaders throughout the ages" (p. 1). The relationship between leadership practices and organizational effectiveness has been extensively studied in business and industry (Adams & Keim, 2000). Today, there is general agreement that leadership is the art of influencing others to take action toward a goal, and that military leadership is the art of influencing soldiers in units to accomplish unit missions (Rosenbach & Taylor, 2000). Leadership in any environment, however, is a complex task that involves using social influence processes to organize, direct and motivate the actions of others (McCormick, 2001)."

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