Rethinking How and Who to Recruit: Disrupting Talent Management
This is the written version of a speech delivered at the Royal United Services 2019 Land Warfare Conference in June 2019. In order to remain...
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Denial of Virtue Services: Senior Leader Words and Actions
September 2019 has seen three incidents of Senior Leader behaviour that are difficult to reconcile with the UK Military’s public calls to “fail fast” and an...
Maximising Talent: Rhetoric or Reality?
Here we go again, the Army, this time under the guise of Programme CASTLE “is rethinking career structures, learning and development and talent management”. In...
What does the Army Leadership Code tell us about what the Army values?
THis article questions if the Army Leadership Code drives the right behaviours for military leadership...
Is it time to rethink Army contracts?
The article aims to spark debate and seek feedback because these contracts, and wider issues of service, are being examined by Programme CASTLE; in which...
‘Leading by Example’ – A Response
In two recent articles a Wavell Room contributor discussed at length their thoughts on the current state of leadership in the Army and put forward...
Army Officer Career Management
A 2015 article in ‘The Atlantic’ magazine https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/11/us-military-tries-halt-brain-drain/413965/ laments the poor retention of talented officers within the US military and identifies their rigid and archaic career...