Accountability and The leader Army Education Essay

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Accountability and Army Leader
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Accountability and Army Leader


Outline
I. Introduction
I.I. Thesis Statement: This paper discusses, accordingly, army leadership as a function of accountability not only as a classic concept of professional commitment of officers to senior commanders yet, more importantly and informed by rapidly changing battlespace landscape, as an evolving concept whereby commanders and subordinates are essentially accountable, each at a certain decision-making level, to mission completion.
II. Body
II.I. Paragraph One: Definition of Leadership:
“[T]he process of influencing people by providing purpose, direction, and motivation to accomplish the mission and improve the organization.” II.II. Paragraph Two: Leadership Traits:
agility, adaptability, flexibility, mental and physical resilience, competence, and character II.III. Paragraph Three: Leadership and Accountability Having full mission ownership
III. Conclusion
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Introduction
For millennia, armies have been developing codes of practice and honor in order to ensure efficiency and capabilities of armed forces. The progress of human history has made leading soldiers an increasingly complex matter informed less by vertical chains of command and more by lateral networks of collaboration and communication. Today, world's most advanced armies are more agile, adaptable, competent and engaged. In lieu of a conventional, if not an outdated view, army leadership has come to mean more accountability on leadership side and more independence on followership side. This way, army leadership is no longer an exclusive privilege enjoyed and practiced by a few senior commanders only yet a responsibility shown by example and exercised by practice. The shift from a vertical linearity of leadership to a horizontal network of collaboration and constant communication comes, in fact, in response to several existing and emerging challenges. To put matters into perspective, a close discussion of what leadership is not so much as a classic concept of commanding soldiers to win battles yet, more importantly, as an evolving concept informed by new understandings of accountability under new warfare and battlespace conditions. This paper discusses, accordingly, army leadership as a function of accountability not only as a classic concept of professional commitment of officers to senior commanders yet, more importantly and informed by rapidly changing battlespace landscape, as an evolving concept whereby commanders and subordinates are essentially accountable, each at a certain decision-making level, to mission completion.
Definition of Army Leadership
There are as many definitions of leadership as styles of leadership are. For current purposes, one working definition of leadership is “the process of influencing people by providing
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purpose, direction, and motivation to accomplish the mission and improve the organization [emphasis added]” (Roberts, 2018). The keyword in leadersh...