Author Description

From twenty years' research and teaching of future officers, West Point's specialists share here--for enlisted men, officers, and those preparing for leader roles in all of the services--the unique problems, skills, and knowledge required in military leadership today. This blend of research from the behavioral sciences, managerial methods, and wisdom from practical experience stimulates understanding of the concepts, processes, and techniques involved in influencing and directing others within the special situation of the armed services. Insights, scientific data, and analyses of interpersonal relations from many disciplines are organized to describe an integrated concept of leadership--the qualities, styles, skills of the leader, including interpersonal communication, management functions, the planning process, organizing, coordinating, direction, and controlling.