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Manning the Future Legions of the United States Finding and Developing Tomorrow's Centurions
Donald Vandergriff
Book Code: C34562
ISBN: 0-313-34562-7
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-34562-3
200 pages
Praeger Security International Academic Cloth
Publication: 10/30/2008
List Price: $75.00 (UK Sterling Price: £41.95)
Availability: Not yet published. (Estimated publication date, 10/30/2008)
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: An Industrial Age model continues to shape the way the Army approaches its recruiting, personnel management, training, and education. This outdated personnel management paradigm--designed for an earlier era--has been so intimately tied to the maintenance of Army culture that a self-perpetuating cycle has formed, diminishing the Army's attempts to develop adaptive leaders and institutions.
This cycle can be broken only if the Army accepts rapid evolutionary change as the norm of the new era. Recruiting the right people, then having them step into an antiquated organization, means that many of them will not stay as they find their ability to contribute and develop limited by a centralized, hierarchical organization. Recruiting and retention data bear this out.
Several factors have combined to force the Army to think about the way it develops and nurtures its leaders. Yet, Vandergriff maintains, mere modifications to today's paradigm may not be enough. Today's Army has to do more than post rhetoric about "adaptability" on briefing slides and in literature. One cannot divorce the way the Army accesses, promotes, and selects its leaders from its leadership-development model. The Army cannot expect to maintain leaders who grasp and practice adaptability if these officers encounter an organization that is neither adaptive nor innovative. Instead, Army culture must become adaptive, and the personnel system must evolve into one that nurtures adaptability in its policies, practices, and beliefs.
Only a detailed, comprehensive plan where nothing is sacred will pave the way to cultural evolution.
Table of Contents:
  • I. Acknowledgements
  • II. Preface
  • III. List of Abbreviations
  • IV. Part I
  • a. Introduction
  • b. Chapter 1 Tomorrows
  • Battlefields
  • c. Chapter 2 History of Manning
  • d. Chapter 3 U.S. Societys Impact
  • e. Chapter 4 Achieving Parallel Evolution
  • f. Chapter 5 Recruiting Tomorrows Soldier and
  • Leaders
  • g. Chapter 6 Training (and educating) Tomorrows
  • Soldier
  • h. Chapter 7 Conclusion Work Remains to Be Done
LC Card Number: 2008029441
LCC Class: UB323
Dewey Class: 355
PDF Catalogs:
PSI Catalog Fall 2008.pdf
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