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In 2004, US Army chief of staff Peter Schoomaker said, “I’ve thought for years the Army needed to transform its personnel system.”29 The Wardynski team published more than a half dozen monographs in their Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) series that took apart the HR system brick by brick and urged the army to transform “from an almost feudal empl
... See moreTim Kane • Bleeding Talent: How the US Military Mismanages Great Leaders and Why It's Time for a Revolution
General Marshall, who had been installed as chief of staff nine months earlier, was already trimming deadwood root and branch. His first target was the bloated square division of World War I.25 As early as 1920, General Pershing had urged the square division be scrapped in favor of a 15,000-man “triangular” structure of three regiments, which he be
... See moreJean Edward Smith • Eisenhower in War and Peace
Four months later, in a speech to a luncheon given by the Association of the United States Army (AUSA), General Shinseki laid out his vision for the way forward. The Army would, he contended, explore and exploit the full range of emerging technologies, including command, control and communications technology, to find the best solutions to the probl
... See moreLast accessed on • Transforming Military Power Since the Cold War
when the United States entered World War II, US Army chief of staff General George C. Marshall dismissed three-quarters of division and corps commanders and five hundred colonels during the course of the four-year conflict.8 However, by the time President Johnson was the commander in chief, the careful promotion system of Secretary of Defense Rober
... See moreTim Kane • Bleeding Talent: How the US Military Mismanages Great Leaders and Why It's Time for a Revolution
The legislation, known as the Nunn-Cohen amendment for Senators Sam Nunn (D–Georgia) and William Cohen (R–Maine), established SOCOM, with a four-star general in charge, bringing SOF from all the services under one command.
David Tucker • United States Special Operations Forces
commanders. Daniel Green’s In the Warlords’ Shadow (Green 2017)
David Tucker • United States Special Operations Forces
At the Veterans Health Administration, Ken Kizer, appointed by Bill Clinton in 1994, inherited an antiquated, inefficient health-care system. The VA faced changes in its client population, the competitive healthcare environment, and modalities for delivering care.2 In just five years, Kizer instituted an electronic medical record system, made struc
... See moreJeffrey Pfeffer • Power: Why Some People Have It—and Others Don't
Peacetime CEO builds scalable, high-volume recruiting machines. Wartime CEO does that, but also builds HR organizations that can execute layoffs.