U.S. ArmyJOSSEY-BASS Be * Know * Do, Adapted from the Official Army Leadership Manual: Leadership the Army Way

What organizations do the best job of training leaders? Most management consultants would say the Harvard Business School, General Electric, IBM, etc. However, what did Peter Drucker, the father of modern management and Jack Welch, the legendary CEO of GE say? The United States military. The military can't use headhunters and draw from the outside. They must train and promote their leaders from within. In this extremely valuable book Hesselbein and General Shinseki roll out complete instructions about what a leader must be, know and do. It starts with a leader's core values. What you ARE is more important than what you say. It moves on toward learning to become all that you can be, and then action, demonstrating to others how to lead so they too can become leaders. Great stuff. Also see: "Hesselbein on Leadership." In a world fraught with fear and too often leadership betrayal, the civilian world needs to adopt metavalue leadership techniques such as these. Highly recommended.

As an admirer of the U.S. Army, I wholeheartedly agree with the premise that the "values" and the "leadership" embodied by the U.S. Army make it one of the most respected institutions in the world. Moreover, anyone who admires the personal histories and accomplishments of Generals Odierno, McChrystal, and Petraeus cannot help be curious about the Leadership System, which created these men and the hundreds like them who have served since the Vietnam War. For those so interested, this book will provide them insight. At the same time, "BE KNOW DO" makes a valiant attempt to insert itself into contemporary Leadership Literature, quoting the Creative Leadership Institute and Peter Drucker on several occasions, as a means to create analogies to the state of current business leadership development practices. Unfortunately, these analogies fall flat. On these occasions, I would have recommended that the authors make an appeal for Business to follow the Army Way, rather than set up a comparison that suggests that the Army Way is just as good as a world-class corporate enterprise.

Excellent book!! If you are teaching a leadership class...this could be your textbook.

Superb. Nice, clean book. In perfect condition. Excellent seller.

The book does a great job simplifying the Be-Know-Do principles of the Army and showing how they apply to every day civilian management field.