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Leadership
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Principles of Leadership
  • Know yourself, and seek self-improvement
  • Know your team, and look out for its welfare
  • Be technically and tactically proficient
  • Keep your team informed
  • Set the example
  • Make sound and timely decisions
  • Develop a sense of responsibility among your team
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Know Yourself, and Seek Self-Improvement
  • Developed through the use of leadership traits
  • Use leadership traits to determine your strengths and weaknesses
  • Work to improve your weaknesses and utilize your strengths
  • With knowledge of yourself, experience, and group behavior, you can determine the best way to deal with any situation
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You Can Improve in Many Ways
  • Self-improvement can be achieved by reading and observing
  • Ask your friends and superiors for an honest evaluation
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Develop Leadership
  • Make an honest evaluation of your strong and weak personal qualities
  • Strive to overcome the weak qualities and further develop your strengths
  • Seek the honest opinions of your friends or superiors
  • Study other leaders’ success or failure
  • Develop a genuine interest in human nature
  • Master the art of effective writing and speech


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Be Technically and Tactically Proficient
  • Before you can lead, you must be able to do the job
  • Demonstrate your ability to accomplish the mission as a leader
  • Respect is the reward for a competent leader
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Develop This Leadership Principle
  •  Seek a well-rounded education
    • Do daily independent reading and research
  • Seek out and associate with capable leaders
    • Observe and study their actions
  • Seek opportunities to practice being a leader
    • Good leadership is acquired only through practice
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Know Your Team and Look Out for Its Welfare
  • This is one of the most important principles
  • You should know your team and how each member reacts to different situations
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Put This Principle into Practice
  • Get to know and understand your team
  • Help your team get support from available services
  • Keep in touch with your team’s attitude and thoughts
  • Ensure fair and equal distribution of rewards
  • Encourage individual development
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Keep Your Team Informed
  • People by nature are inquisitive
  • Keep the team apprised of all actions and reasoning to promote efficiency and morale
  • Make them feel like an important part of the system, not just a cog on a wheel
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Techniques for Applying This Principle
  • Whenever possible, explain why tasks must be done and how you intend to do them
  • Frequently inspect whether immediate subordinates are passing on necessary information
  • Be alert to the spread of rumors
  • Replace rumors with truth
  • Publicize team successes to build morale and esprit de corps
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Set the Example
  • Leadership is taught by example
  • Set team standards by personal example
  • If your personal standards are high, you can rightfully demand the same of your team
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Techniques for Setting the Example
  • Show that you are willing to do the same things you ask your team to do
  • Conduct yourself so that your personal habits are not open to criticism
  • Avoid showing favoritism
  • Delegate authority and avoid over-supervision
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Make Sound and Timely Decisions
  • You must be able to rapidly assess a situation and make a sound decision
  • Hesitation or a reluctance in decision making causes subordinates to lose confidence in your leadership abilities
  • Don’t hesitate to revise your decision if you discover it is wrong
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Techniques to Develop This Principle
  • Practice objective estimation to develop a logical and orderly thought process
  • Plan for every reasonably foreseen event
  • Consider your decisions’ effects on all members of your team
  • Allow subordinates sufficient time to plan
  • Encourage subordinates to estimate and plan concurrently with you
  • Ensure that your team knows your policies and plans
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Develop a Sense of Responsibility Among Your Team
  • Offer your team opportunities for professional development
  • Promote mutual confidence and respect between leader and subordinates by delegating the authority to accomplish tasks
    • Encourage subordinates to exercise initiative and to give whole-hearted cooperation
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To Develop This Principle
  • Operate through the chain of command
  • Provide clear, well thought-out directions
  • Tell your team what to do, not how to do it
  • Give advice and help freely when requested
  • Resist the urge to micro-manage
  • Hold the team responsible for results, while the overall responsibility remains yours
  • Delegate sufficient authority
  • Be quick to recognize team accomplishments
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