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Article: What School Leaders Can Learn from Military Leadership Development.(Review)
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- School Administrator
- Article date:
- January 1, 1997
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On first blush, it would seem that school leadership is (and perhaps should be) very different from military leadership.
But as the title of Leading People: What School Leaders Can Learn from Military Leadership Development implies, school leaders can profit from a look at what the military defines as leadership; what indicators are used to identity future military leaders; and what strategies are used to train military leaders.
Authors William B. Monahan and Edwin R. Smith, both professors of educational administration, compared the U.S. Army's version of leadership to the educational world. Most military leadership training was grounded in a historical ...