Planning in 5 Quotes
Planning is often harder than it needs to be. It is seen as a search for the truth, some obscure absolute, rather than what it...
Category : People and Leadership
Does Compassionate Leadership have a place in the Military?
How adopting a compassionate approach could benefit the organisation, your team and you. As a Medical Support Officer; I have spent my service career in...
What is Transformation
As the British Army looks into Europe, we are no doubt considering our design, purpose, training and equipment. The Integrated Review and the Future Solider...
What is Talent?
We tend to know talent when we see it in the sporting, theatre, or music worlds, but what about in those we work with every...
#WavellReviews “Rebel Ideas: The Power of Diverse Thinking” by Matthew Syed
If the British Army is as serious about cognitive diversity as it claims to be, it almost certainly needs to delve much deeper into what...
Reflections on Command and Decision Making
I had the privilege of commanding at three levels in the Army – troop (twice!), squadron, and regiment. I’ve also observed senior officers in command...
Don’t be SMART – objective setting in Defence
Defence has reinvigorated its existing approach to annual appraisals, underlining objective setting as the key mechanism to frame and evaluate individual performance. But in relying...
#WavellReviews “The Blind Strategist: John Boyd and the American Art of War” by Stephen Robinson
What could be more dangerous than accepting the efficacy of our own doctrine as observed fact, when it might actually be formed of unevidenced opinion...
More range or more Rangers – the fight for the future of the British Army.
In 2015 the Chief of the General Staff, General Sir Nicholas Carter, stated that the British Army had ‘bent [itself] significantly out of shape from...
Junior Leadership During Covid 19
The word ‘unprecedented’ has been used so much to describe the last 18 months that it has almost started to lose all meaning. But there...