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Leadership

"Good leadership promotes professionalism—a renaissance of standards, involving quality of life, service, discipline
and total commitment to our Army and the United States of America."
––MG Albert Akers
Unknown Source:
"Don't begrudge the time you spend developing, coaching and helping your people to grow so they can carry on
when you're gone. It's one of the best signs of good leadership."
––Bernard Baruch
John Brown's Body:
"If you take a flat map
And move wooden blocks upon it strategically,
The thing looks well, the blocks behave as they should.
The science of war is moving live men like blocks.
And getting the blocks into place at a fixed moment.
But it takes time to mold your men into blocks
And flat maps turn into country where, creeks and gullies
Hamper your wooden squares. They stick in the brush,
They are tired and rest, they straggle after ripe blackberries
And you cannot lift them up in your hand and move them....
It is all so clear in the maps, so clear in the mind,
But the orders are slow, the men in the blocks are slow
To move, when they start they take too long on the way
The General loses his stars and the block–men die
In unstrategic defiance of martial law
Because still used to just being men, not block parts."
––Stephen Vincent Benet
"Command of a Divisional Infantry Battalion in CONUS", Battalion Commanders, Chapter 5:
"Use your people by allowing everyone to do his job. When a subordinate is free to do his job, he perceives this
trust and confidence from his superiors and takes more pride in his job, himself, and the organization's goals and
objectives. Delegation of sufficient authority and proper use of subordinates helps develop future leaders. This is a
moral responsibility of every commander."
––LTC Stanley Bonta
Lecture at West Point, 1952:
1 DA PAM 600–65 • 1 November 1985
"The greatest leader in the world could never win a campaign unless he understood the men he had to lead."
––GEN Omar Bradley...