The
US
Army Leadership Field Manual
The
Official US Army Guide
by Center for Army Leadership
Part One – The Leader, Leadership, and the Human Dimension
Part One – The Leader, Leadership, and the Human Dimension
Part
Two – Direct Leadership: For First-line, Face-to-Face Leaders
1.
Direct
Leadership Skills
2.
Direct
Leadership Actions
Part
Three – Organizational and Strategic Leadership
1.
Organizational
Leadership – Skill and Actions
2.
Strategic
Leadership – Skills and Actions
Appendix
– Performance Indicators
Appendix
– Character Development
1.
(Y)our
mission ….is to win our wars…(Y)ou are the ones who are trained to fight. Yours
is the profession of arms, the will to win, the sure knowledge that in war
there is no substitute for victory; that if you lose, the nation will be
destroyed… - By General Douglas MacArthur, 1962
2.
The
most precious commodity with which the Army deals is the individual soldier who
is the heart and soul of our combat forces. – General J Lawton Collins
3.
Just
as the diamond requires three properties for its formation – carbon, heat, and
pressure – successful leaders require the interaction of three properties –
character, knowledge, and application. Like carbon to the diamond, character is
the basic quality of the leader. But as carbon alone does not create a diamond,
neither can character alone create a leader. The diamond needs heat. Man needs
knowledge, study and preparation. The third property, pressure – acting in
conjunction with carbon and heat – forms the diamond. Similarly, ones
character, attended by knowledge, blooms through application to produce a
leader. – General Edward C. Meyer
4.
“No
one is more professional than I” – The Creed of the Noncommissioned Officer
5.
Leadership
is “influencing” people – by providing purpose, direction, and motivation –
while “operating” to accomplish the mission and improving the organization.
6.
BE,
KNOW, DO
7.
When
you are commanding, leading (soldiers) under conditions where physical
exhaustion and privations must be ignored, where the lives of (soldiers) may be
sacrificed, then, the efficiency of your leadership will depend only to a minor
degree on your tactical ability. It will primarily be determined by your
character, your reputation, not much for courage – which will be accepted as a
matter of course – but by the previous reputation you have established for
fairness, for that high-minded patriotic purpose, that quality of unswerving
determination to carry through any
military task assigned to you. – General George C Marshall
8.
To
our subordinates we owe everything we are or hope to be. For it is our
subordinates, not our superiors, who raise us to the dizziest of professional
heights, and it is our subordinates who can and will, if we deserve it, bury us
in the deepest mire of disgrace. When the chips are down and our subordinates
have accepted us as their leader, we don’t need any superior to tell us; we see
it in their eyes and in their faces, in the barracks, on the field, and on the
battle line. And on that final day when we must be ruthlessly demanding, cruel
and heartless, they will rise as one to do our bidding, knowing full well that
it may be their last act in this life. – Colonel Albert G Jenkins
9.
When
I became the chief of staff, I set two personal goals for myself. The first was
to ensure that the Army was continually prepared to go to war, and the second
was to create a climate in which each member could find personal meaning and
fulfillment. It is my belief that only by attainment of the second goal will we
ensure the first. – GEN Edward C Meyer
10. Everywhere you look – on the fields of
athletic competition, in combat training, operations, and in civilian
communities – soldiers are doing what is right. – Sergeant Major of the Army,
Julius W Gates
11. LDRSHIP
(ア)
L
– Loyalty
(イ)
D
– Duty
(ウ)
R
– Respect
(エ)
S
– Selfless Service
(オ)
H
– Honor
(カ)
I
– Integrity
(キ)
P
– Personal Courage
12. The essence of duty is
acting in the absence of orders or direction from others, based on an inner
sense of what is morally and professionally right. – GEN John A Wickham Jr.
13. Put the welfare of the
nation, the Army, and subordinates before your own. The nation today needs men
who think in terms of service to their country and not in terms of their
country’s debt to them. – GEN Omar N Bradley
14. What is life without
honor? Degradation is worse than death.
15. Face fear, danger, or
adversity (physical or moral) – the concept of professional courage does not always
mean being as tough as nails either. It also suggests a willingness to listen
to the soldiers problems, to go to bat for them in a tough situation, and it
means knowing just how far they can go. It also means knowing just how far they
can go. It also means being willing to tell the boss when he’s wrong. – William
Connelly
16. Leadership is not a
natural trait, something inherited like the color of eyes of hair…. Leadership
is a skill that can be studied, learned, and perfected by practice. – Noncom’s
Guide
17. The will of soldiers is
three times more important than their weapons. – Colonel Dandridge Malone
18. The core of a soldier is
moral discipline. It is intertwined with the discipline of physical and mental
achievement. Total discipline overcomes adversity, and physical stamina draws
on an inner strength that says “drive on”. – William Bainbridge
19. The leader must be an
aggressive thinker – always anticipating and analyzing. He must be able to make
good assessments and solid tactical judgments. Brigadier Gen John Nelson
20. I learned that good
judgment comes from experience and that experience grows out of mistakes. – GEN
Omar Bradley
21. It is not genius which
reveals to me suddenly and secretly what I should do in circumstances
unexpected by others; it is thought and meditation.
22. Fatigue makes coward of
us all. – GEN George Patton Jr.
23. Anyone can become angry –
that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at
the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not easy.
– Aristotle, Greek philosopher
24. Never let yourself be
driven by impatience or anger. One always regrets having followed the first
dictates of his emotions. – Marshal de Belle Isle, French minister of war
25. Just as fire tempers
iron into fine steel, so does adversity temper one’s character into firmness,
tolerance, and determination. – Margaret Chase Smith
26. All soldiers are
entitled to outstanding leadership; I will provide that leadership. I know my
soldiers and I will always place their needs above my own. I will communicated
consistently with my soldiers and never leave them uninformed. – Creed of the
Noncommissioned Officer
27. The Army is an
institution, not an occupation. Members take an oath of service to the nation
and the Army, rather than simply accept a job … the Army has moral and ethical
obligations to those who serve and their families; they, correspondingly, have
responsibilities to the Army. – John Wickham Jr.
28. Readiness is the best
way of truly taking care of soldiers. – Richard Kidd
29. All men are frightened. The
more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened. The courageous man is
the man who forces himself, in spite of his fear, to carry on. – Gen George
Patton
30. A man does not have
himself killed for a few half pence a day or for a petty distinction. You must
speak to the soul in order to electrify the man. – Napolean Bonaparte
31. Never get so caught up
in cutting wood that you forget to sharpen your axe. – James Karolchyk
32. The most important
influence you have on your people is the example you set.
33. A good leader must
sometimes be stubborn. Armed with the courage of his convictions, he must often
fight to defend them. When he has come to a decision after thorough an analysis
– and when he is sure he is right – he must stick to it even to the point of
stubbornness. – GEN Omar Bradley
34. Soldiers learn to be
good leaders from good leaders. – Richard Kidd
35. For most men, the matter
of learning is one of personal preference. But for Army leaders, the obligation
to learn, to grow in their profession, is clearly a public duty. – GEN Omar
Bradley
36. To get the best out of
your men, they must feel that you are their real leader and must know that they
can depend upon you. – GEN John Pershing
37. Soldiers need leaders
who know how to fight and how to make the right decisions. – GEN Carl Vuono
38. Making decisions,
exercising command, managing, administering – those are the dynamics of our
calling. Responsibility is its core. – Gen Harold K Johnson
39. A soldier may not always
believe what you say, but he will never doubt what you do. – Battalion
Commander’s Handbook
40. Too often we place the
burden of comprehension on (those at a different level from) us, assuming both
the existence of a common language and motivation. – GEN Edward C Meyer
41. If it’s dumb it’ not our
policy. – Lt Gen Walter Ulmer
42. The key is not to make
quick decisions, but to make timely decisions. – GEN Colin Powell
43. It is not enough to
fight. It is the spirit which we bring to the fight that decides the issue. It
is morale that wins the victory. – GEN George Marshall
44. A good plan violently
executed now is better than a perfect plan next week. – GEN George Patton Jr.
45. None of us is as smart
as all of us. – a brigade commander
46. Never tell people how to
do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their
ingenuity. – GEN George Patton Jr.
47. The creative leader is
one who will rewrite doctrine, employ new weapons system, develop new tactics
and who pushes the state of the art. – John O Marsh
48. The best executive is
the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and
self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. –
Theodore Roosevelt
49. It is in the minds of
the commanders that the issue of battle is really decided. – Sir Basil Liddell
Hart
50. True genius resides in
the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting
information. – Sir Winston Churchill
51. Leadership is
understanding people and involving them to help you do a job. That takes all of
the good characteristics, like integrity, dedication of purpose, selflessness,
knowledge, skill, implacability, as well as determination not to accept
failure. – Admiral Arleigh Burke
52. If you have an important
point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile-driver. Hit the
point once. Then come back and hit it a second time – a tremendous whack! – Sir
Winston Churchill
53. It is the morale of
armies, as well as of nations, more than anything else, which makes victories
and their results decisive. – Baron Antoine-Henri de Jomini
54. There are no victories
at bargain prices. – GEN Dwight D Eisenhower
55. The higher up the chain
of command, the greater is the need for boldness to be supported by a
reflective mind, so that boldness does not degenerate into purposeless bursts
of blind passion. – Carl von Clausewitz
56. A good soldier, whether
he leads a platoon or an army, is expected to look backward as well as forward;
but he must think only forward. – GEN Douglas MacArthur
57. Performance Indicators
(ア)
Values
①
Loyalty
(イ)
Duty
(ウ)
Respect
(エ)
Selfless
Service
(オ)
Honor
(カ)
Integrity
(キ)
Personal
Courage
(ク)
Attributes
①
Mental
Attributes
②
Physical
Attributes
③
Emotional
Attributes
(ケ)
Skills
①
Interpersonal
Skills
②
Conceptual
Skills
③
Technical
Skills
④
Tactical
Skills
⑤
Actions
1.
Influencing
2.
communicating
(ア)
Oral
communication
(イ)
Written
communication
⑥
Decision
Making
⑦
Motivating
⑧
Operating
1.
planning
and preparing
2.
executing
3.
assessing
(コ)
Improving
(サ)
Developing
(シ)
Building
(ス)
Learning
58. Character Development
(ア)
Leaders
teach values, subordinates learn the culture
(イ)
Leaders
reinforce values, subordinates comply
(ウ)
Leaders
shape the ethical climate, subordinates internalize army values
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