Leadership and Training for the Fight: A Few Thoughts on Leadership and Training from a Former Special Operations Soldier Author: | Language: English | ISBN:
B00CWRZXJM | Format: PDF
Leadership and Training for the Fight: A Few Thoughts on Leadership and Training from a Former Special Operations Soldier Description
Tested and effective leadership and teaching advice based on riveting combat stories from a Special Operations veteran.
In Leadership and Training for the Fight, MSG Paul R. Howe, U.S. Army Retired, shares ideas on leadership that he has developed through extensive combat experience. Howe tells riveting stories of military operations and analyzes leadership concepts. He also gives advice on how to understand students and how to refine your teaching methods. Written with the unique insight of a Special Operations soldier, this book is the perfect guide for anyone interested in improving leadership skills in civilian or military situations.
- Audible Audio Edition
- Listening Length: 12 hours and 16 minutes
- Program Type: Audiobook
- Version: Unabridged
- Publisher: Audible, Inc.
- Audible.com Release Date: May 20, 2013
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00CWRZXJM
Leadership and Training for the Fight: Using Special Operations Principles to Succeed in Law Enforcement, Business, and War by Paul Howe is a comprehensive leadership and training doctrine. Howe articulates with a high degree of clarity how leadership and training go hand in hand especially when dealing in a high-risk environment such with law enforcement or the military. The topics of leadership and training are each covered separately and integrated to show how exceptional trainers must also be excellent leaders. The book begins with an introduction called Accelerating the Loop which goes into detail about Boyd's OODA Loop. Howe believes this information is so critical that he states:
"Boyd's Loop is the most essential tool for anyone looking to develop their leadership skills or hoping to teach tactical training to others."
After the introduction Howe gets into Part 1: The Mentality and Actualization of Leadership where he goes into specific detail about: Combat Mindset, Individual Leadership, Team Leadership, Organizational Leadership, Combat Leadership, Training for the Fight, Leadership Planning, Counseling and Mentorship, and Realities of Combat and Tactical Tips.
Many of the chapters begin with a `scenario' which highlight the theme of the chapter. At the end of the scenario is a brief section for "After-Action Comments" in order to `Sustain' and `Improve' so that you have an understanding of the lessons learned. Each chapter ends with a summary of `Key Points" to focus on from the chapter.
I was a tad skeptical obtaining this manual fearing it to be a rehash of Howe's two older works, but I was pleasantly surprised at the dept of new and updated material contained within this book. Sure there is some overlap, but it is good overlap, as in reviewing standards that need to be maintained at a highly proficient tactical level of operations.
Howe not only offers more of his real world, operational stories concisely written, in order to convey key principles of sound tactical practices and procedures, without giving "trade secrets" to the "enemy" (who will obviously be studying this manual, too), he also provides at the end of each well written chapter, a conclusive summary of key points to study, improve upon, sustain and/or change as one progresses in experience and training.
The book is quite comprehensive, insofar as how and why one must prepare as both leader and innovative, out of the box thinker, if one is to be truly an effective and efficient tactical "fighter."
The book possesses an easy to read and follow format with precise outlines of essential know how and applications that will guide the reader to being more appreciatively mindful of key elements of not only how to go about creating training paradigms, but how to properly maximize implementing said training paradigms for the "fight."
All through the book, Howe emphasizes the great importance of proper mindset, mindset, mindset if one is going to a leader men will willingly follow into harms' way, and who is capable of actually leading men in the utter chaos, duress and mayhem of killing combat.
All superior systems possess built in redundancies, and this book is no exception, but as within great systems, they are much needed and do not need to be downgraded.
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