Article: “Leadership Lessons from a Three Star General”

“Leadership is deliberate: You don’t accidentally have successful teams.”
Lieutenant General (ret) Frank Kearney, US Army

This short read about leadership lessons from Lieutenant General Frank Kearney is worth a few minutes. LTG Kearney was speaking t0 business leaders at the Thayer Leader Development Group at West Point and explained several of the basic military leadership principles. His thoughts are a good reminder to do the basics, which we sometimes take for granted.

A few of them are:

  • “You have a responsibility to everyone you bring into an organization and that means having the courage to give candid feedback.”
  • Effective communication is a three-part process:  Issue Orders, Backbrief, and Refine Guidance
  • “You have to know what right looks like for each role in the organization.”

This article was originally published by Jenna Goudreau at Business Insider online on May 27, 2014.

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