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Zusatztext “I have read plenty of leadership books and find this one to be the most realistic . . . This book is down to earth! with plenty of scenarios! quotations and situations that can easily be related to a reader’s past! present and future. I highly recommend this book.” — Army Magazine “Pendry’s book is both timely and useful . . . I encourage all battalion and brigade commanders to add it to their unit’s professional reading list . . . Read this book! take up his challenge to critically examine ourselves and our styles.” — Armor Magazine “[J. D. Pendry] does a superb job of relating his own personal experiences and tying them into everyday leadership and management principles ... It is not too difficult to transfer the lessons presented here to any other military service or civilian application.” — U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings “Business and corporate leaders would do well to take [Pendry’s] lessons to heart.” — Ocala! Florida! Star Banner Informationen zum Autor J. D. Pendry Klappentext Will enlighten some noncommissioned officers...and frighten others. The book! based on experience throughout a long and successful career! is about leadership from the NCO perspective instead of the officer perspective.--Army Magazine INTRODUCTION Noncommissioned officers (NCOs) are great teachers—arguably the best in the world. Still, we don’t always do a good job teaching leadership. What we teach and how we teach it cause soldiers to memorize lists of traits, principles, characteristics, and leadership theories. When they can recite these lists, we believe we’ve taught them leadership. We need to concentrate on how soldiers really learn to lead and follow. We’ll do a better job of teaching them if we do. I believe there are three types of soldiers. I call them three-meter, fifty-meter, and 100-meter soldiers. Each type requires a different level or style of leadership. This book talks about each in detail. I also believe that all levels of leadership are important. The most important and critical leadership, however, takes place between the soldier and the first line noncommissioned leader. This is the leadership that happens at the first level—in the three-meter zone. Soldiers don’t learn to lead or follow from generals. They learn from other soldiers. Reading what is written by and about our nation’s greatest generals teaches them about our army, its history, and the generals’ careers. Leadership theory written by professionals holding impressive credentials teaches how leadership could or should work in a perfect world. Soldiers learn our basic leadership manual and commit many principles and factors, and all the be, know, and do attributes to memory. At the end of the day, though, all a soldier learns about leading and following is learned from another soldier—a noncommissioned officer. By example, we teach soldiers how to follow and lead. Both are arts for soldiers to master. A soldier is exposed to many leaders in the army. The most important and influential leader for a soldier is always the closest one: the one in the three-meter zone. Every soldier is a leader regardless of his rank or position. His attitude, opinions, desires and deportment mold the approach to mission taken by those above him and his subordinates. It is the summation of this leadership by ‘every soldier’ that makes our Army a winner. —Department of the Army Pamphlet 600–65, November 1985, author unknown Leaders are not always senior in rank. For me, the most valuable leadership lessons always have come from the example of the leaders closest to me. I still learn from them every day. Some exceptional men and women have taught me valuable lessons over time. Conversely, I have learned from some pitiful ones, too. The soldierly values and work ethic passed to me from those except...
