Leadership Philosophy
My foundation and leadership philosophy generates from the Marine Corps. The Marine Corps has provided myself specific guidance and a strong foundation on how to be an effective leader by providing multiple leaderships tools that can be utilized for short, medium and long goals. Throughout my 14-year career, I’m confident that I have utilized all of these leadership tools at one point or another. The guidance from the Marine Corps has coached me in the right direction to be an effective leader. Furthermore, as my career has progressed through the years and on occasions I have been told and I have instructed my followers that they “must pick and pull from all of their leaders’ strengths and weaknesses and develop their own style of leadership.”
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The MCRP 6-11B W/CH 1 list both the leadership traits and principles as follows:
Leadership traits: bearing, courage (both physical and moral), decisiveness, dependability, endurance, enthusiasm, initiative, integrity, judgment, justice, knowledge, loyalty, tact and unselfishness.
Leadership principles: know yourself and seek self-improvement, be technically and tactically proficient, develop a sense of responsibility among your subordinates, make sound and timely decisions, set the example, know your marines and look out for their welfare, keep your marines informed, seek responsibility and take responsibility for your actions, ensure tasks are understood, supervised and accomplished, train your marines as a team and employ your command in accordance with its capabilities (p.15-2).
What Kind of Leader Am
The Strategic Corporal: Leadership in the Three Block War http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/usmc/strategic_corporal.htm "The Strategic Corporal: Leadership in the Three Block War" Marines Magazine, January 1999 by Gen. Charles C. Krulak Operation Absolute Agility 0611: The African sun had just risen above the hills surrounding the sprawling city and sent its already dazzling rays streaming into the dusty alleyway. Corporal Hernandez felt the sun on his face and knew that today would, again
view leadership on a very broad level. This view is based on a quote from a book I read a long time ago on coaching – but I don’t remember the name. In my experience, there are significant similarities between leadership and coaching. To name a few, both involve motivation, maximization of individual effort as a team, achieving a shared vision, and crossing the finish line together. 2. More specifically, my philosophy also includes a few hallmark cornerstones that comprise my leadership foundation
naturally is how I view leadership on a very broad level. I base my view on a book I read a long time ago on coaching – but I don’t remember the name. In my experience, there are significant similarities between leadership and coaching. To name a few, both involve motivation, maximization of individual effort as a team, achieving a shared vision, and crossing the finish line together. 2. More specifically, my philosophy includes a few hallmark cornerstones that comprise my leadership foundation which
made a formal proposal to President Roosevelt to create a U.S. military unit that “would infiltrate occupied territory and assist resistance groups.”(Major John T. Hoffman USMCR, 3) In January of 1942, the president’s son, Captain James Roosevelt USMC wrote a letter to Major General Thomas Holcomb, 17th Commandant of the Marine Corps, suggesting the formation of “a unit for purposes similar to those of the British Commandos and the Chinese Guerillas.”(Hoffman, 3) Encouraged by the success of the
THEORY AND PACTISE OF LEADERSHIP PRINCINPLES GUIDING MY LEADERSHIP BEHAVIOUR IN THE FUTURE Leadership theory best understood by me, is a framework of ideas or principles that set the standard for any leader within an organization. For a leader to be effective and successful, he needs to be driven by principles that guide his behavior on how to effectively manage his team within a workforce. Without any principles or philosophies to go by, there will be failure and
Army Regulation 670–1 Uniforms and Insignia Wear and Appearance of Army Uniforms and Insignia Headquarters Department of the Army Washington, DC 3 February 2005 UNCLASSIFIED SUMMARY of CHANGE AR 670–1 Wear and Appearance of Army Uniforms and Insignia This rapid action revision of 3 February 2005-o Updates figures throughout the regulation (throughout). o Clarifies the definition of unauthorized tattoos while wearing the class A uniform (chap 1). Identifies officials responsible for