Tip of the Spear: Leadership Lessons from the U.S.-led Armed Forces in the Middle East

The Pentagon recently invited a group of 43 civilians including Michael Useem director of Wharton’s Center for Leadership and Change Management to witness the management and leadership of its Central Command which is responsible for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Useem and his colleagues -- who included executives private equity investors media commentators and academics -- traveled to the Middle East to observe troops and operations in Kuwait Bahrain and the Arabian Sea. In this report written literally from the frontlines Useem takes ”a look at the execution of American military policy -- not the policy itself -- a subject of continuing and increasingly intense national debate .... From even this brief foray into their world it is evident that the U.S. armed services have built what many private companies strive for: a culture of readiness and commitment cross-service and cross-national integration and pragmatic flexibility.”

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