Tiny Leadership Tales: ‘If I Care About My People’
Reading Time: 2 minutes Bite sized leadership lessons, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 […]
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Tiny Leadership Tales: ‘When No One Is Watching’
Reading Time: 2 minutes Bite sized leadership lessons, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 […]
Tiny Leadership Tales: ‘You Can Be Right And Be A Jerk’
Reading Time: 2 minutes Bite sized leadership lessons, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 […]
Tiny Leadership Tales: ‘Leadership KISS’
Reading Time: 2 minutes Bite sized leadership lessons, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 […]
Tiny Leadership Tales: ‘No Effect Without Respect’
Reading Time: 2 minutes Bite sized leadership lessons, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 […]
Tiny Leadership Tales: ‘Elegantly Simple Words’
Reading Time: 2 minutes Bite sized leadership lessons, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 […]
Tiny Leadership Tales: ‘I Set My Jaw’
Reading Time: 2 minutes Bite sized leadership lessons, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 […]
Tiny Leadership Tales: ‘Right Wheel, Continue The Wheel’
Reading Time: 2 minutes Bite sized leadership lessons, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 […]
Tiny Leadership Tales: ‘Delivering Speeches Like General Patton’
Reading Time: 2 minutes Bite sized leadership lessons, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 […]
Tiny Leadership Tales
Reading Time: 2 minutes “Be grounded by what we are good at – exceptional leadership and […]
Will the Real Army Leaders Please Stand Up?
Reading Time: 4 minutes During a promotion course at Canungra, I recall an instructor posing a […]
Why Leadership Means Leaving on Time
Reading Time: 3 minutes An overused- but often cited- definition of leadership is “the art of […]
Finding Your Leadership Identity: Self-Reflection versus Comparison
Reading Time: 3 minutes As a junior commander, I am a recent graduate of training designed […]
Loneliness: The Other Side of Fatigue Management
Reading Time: 3 minutes 2020 saw increased operational demands for some members of the part time […]
Leadership and the Art of Mentoring through Mental Models – Part 2
Reading Time: 4 minutes “The last of human freedoms—the ability to choose one’s attitude in a […]
Leadership and the Art of Mentoring through Mental Models
Reading Time: 6 minutes What if you could build a stronger team by building a shared […]
Leading at Every Level: Contesting the Army Leadership Levels
Reading Time: 3 minutes I must admit to being taken aback by the appearance of the […]
5 Fiction Books for Leadership Development
Reading Time: 4 minutes Fiction is an important element of every professional military education reading list. […]
The Value of Mentoring
Reading Time: 5 minutes Most ADF members don’t realise the value of mentoring until late in their careers – with the common reflection being ‘Why didn’t I do this sooner!?’ Mentoring can change your career and life trajectory. It can open up networks and opportunities beyond your immediate reach, and can give you the tools and confidence to develop and promote yourself.
Leadership and the Art of Smiling – Part 2
Reading Time: 4 minutes So, if you have read Part 1 of this blog, you will […]
Leadership and the Art of Smiling – Part 1
Reading Time: 5 minutes “Magic’s just science that we don’t yet understand” – Arthur C. Clarke […]
Service and Serendipity – Ten Reflections Prior to Sub Unit Command
Reading Time: 5 minutes I was recently selected for a sub-unit command appointment and as with […]
Prepare for Day One
Reading Time: 5 minutes ‘Do not confuse Command with Leadership; command is a responsibility to the […]
Mission Command: Competence, Assets and Risk
Reading Time: 2 minutes This article is a junior leader’s framework for mission command and complements […]
From Infantry Officer to Call Centre Commander
Reading Time: 3 minutes How officer training prepared me for Operation COVID-19 Assist. If you’d told […]
What were they thinking? Professional Judgment in the Crozier/Modly Affair
Reading Time: 6 minutes When former acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly announced he was […]
Junior Leader Professional Military Education
Reading Time: 7 minutes The following is compiled from our 10in10 series. Those interviewed were asked to recommend […]
Understanding Mission Command
Reading Time: 7 minutes Mission command is a philosophy for command and a system for conducting […]
An Interview with Sean Parkes: The Logic of Good Soldiering
Reading Time: 3 minutes Samuel Cox (SC): Can you give me the BLUF (bottom line up […]
An Interview with Grant McFarlane: Regimental Sergeant Major- Army
Reading Time: 2 minutes Chris Sharp (CS): What have you learned from the Chief of Army […]
An Interview with Anthony Rawlins: Deputy Chief of Army
Reading Time: 4 minutes Samuel Cox (SC): What does the Deputy Chief of Army (DCA) do? Are there […]
Wrap-Up: Army Leadership Seminar 2019
Reading Time: 4 minutes In launching last week’s inaugural Army Leadership Seminar (31 Jul – 01 […]
My Curious Month – Senior Non-Commissioned Officer Professional Military Education
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s important, but is it accessible? This month was all about the […]
The Intellectual Senior Non-Commissioned Officer
Reading Time: 4 minutes “There is a lack of consciousness of the importance of professional education […]
Part III: Leading a Culture of Innovation
Reading Time: 4 minutes Often when the topic of creating a culture of innovation arises, the […]
Part II: Leading Innovation
Reading Time: 4 minutes There is a profound difference between being an ‘innovative leader’ and being […]
Mission Command Algorithms: An Evolution of Artificial Intelligence & Combat Leadership
Reading Time: 5 minutes ‘There is no reason to believe that leadership will be spared the impact […]
Part I: Innovative Leadership
Reading Time: 4 minutes Innovation is the key to success in modern military operations, thus it […]
What is a Warfighting Culture?
Reading Time: 5 minutes For the past 14 months I have been privileged to serve as […]
The Importance of a ‘Failure to Grow’ Culture
Reading Time: 4 minutes I was shocked recently to read a piece by Major General Mick Ryan […]
Trusting Imperfection: Getting Mission Command to Succeed
Reading Time: 4 minutes The commander also strikes and accepts compromises in his [or her] command: […]
Less is More: The Enabled Combat Brigade Headquarters
Reading Time: 11 minutes Editor’s Note: This is Grounded Curiosity’s 3rd most read article of all […]
Aide Memoire – Advising and Mentoring Foreign Militaries
Reading Time: 11 minutes 60 tips to become a more effective advisor Advising and mentoring foreign […]
Australian Tactical Design: Development and Use of Decisive Events
Reading Time: 21 minutes War is a science covered with shadows in whose obscurity one cannot […]
Mentoring, Mission Command, and the Value of the Officers’ Mess – Increasing the ‘Speed of Trust’
Reading Time: 3 minutes This blog reflects on the important role of the Army Officers’ Mess […]
What is Modern Military Leadership? A Primer
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Australian Army senior leadership team has been articulating the need for […]
Command and Leadership – Fit to Fight
Reading Time: 12 minutes “Australian Soldiers identify with their Battalion. It’s indeed their family: it leads, […]
Learning How to Learn – The switch from training to education and the life-long learner?
Reading Time: 6 minutes The Army builds its intellectual capital in peace and spends it in […]
Leadership in Focus – Vehicle Craft – Blending Technology and Tactical Acumen
Reading Time: 3 minutes There is much discussion and idea exchange about the ASLAV replacement (CRV) […]
Captain and Coach
Reading Time: 4 minutes Has military thinking or practice seen a separation of two intrinsic command […]
Leadership in Focus – Listen, Learn and Lead
Reading Time: 4 minutes Last week the Chief of Army came and spoke to the Royal […]
Enough Talk – How Do We Professionally Develop Our People?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Quick thoughts on practically applying professional development How do we practically implement professional development […]
Mindfulness for Military: Improving Human Performance, Cognitive Mastery, Emotional Intelligence and Resilience
Reading Time: 6 minutes As the Australian Army seeks methods to improve human performance, cognitive mastery, […]
Leadership in Focus – Emotional Intelligence, Leadership and Resilience
Reading Time: 6 minutes It was a popular belief in the past that to build a […]
Leadership in Focus – The Timeless Leadership Question
Reading Time: 3 minutes The frequently asked leadership question, ‘Are great leaders born or created?’ consistently […]
The Resilience Adventure
Reading Time: 5 minutes The first occasion a soldier faces real fear must not be on […]
Risky Business: Equipping Junior Leaders to Exploit Risk on the Battlefield
Reading Time: 7 minutes ‘In the art of war, lesser men are schemers, who avoid risk […]
Social Media in the Military: Opportunities, Perils and a Safe Middle Path
Reading Time: 11 minutes Editor’s Note: This is Grounded Curiosity’s most read article of all time. […]
Junior Leadership in the Australian Army
Reading Time: 4 minutes Do we know why it works or are we doing what we’ve […]
Time Wasted and Lessons Learnt
Reading Time: 10 minutes It takes considerable knowledge just to recognise the extent of your own […]
For junior officers – who cares for your boss?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Junior officers know the ‘hurry up and wait’ phenomenon well. Common conversations […]
Using Social Media as a Junior Leader
Reading Time: 7 minutes Beginning-of-year mandatory briefs are filled with reminders of ‘what not to do’ […]
Owning Your Professional Military Development – Junior Leaders
Reading Time: 5 minutes Doctrine Man recently penned the well-known military adage that “no one can […]
Defining the Contemporary Veteran
Reading Time: 6 minutes This post was written on Anzac Day in 2014. It flows from […]