Gung Ho

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Gung Ho!
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Group Advantages

• Provide more complete information.
• Generate more alternatives.
• Increase legitimacy
• Increase acceptance of a solution.

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Group Disadvantages

• Time Consuming.
• Minority Domination.
• Pressures to conform. (Groupthink)
• Ambiguous Responsibility.

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To Build Team Confidence

• Support team members ideas
• Demonstrate competence
• Communicate openly
• Be predictable
• Be respectful
• Be fair

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Scheins Organizational Culture Factors

• Concept that describes the values, climate and
  practices of an organization
• Includes but not limited to
• Myths and Stories.
• Symbols and artifacts.
• Rituals.
• Language.
• Culture separates leaders and managers.

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Organizational Culture Defined

• A pattern of shared basic assumptions that the
  group learned as it solved its problems of
  external adaptation and internal integration that
  has worked well enough to be considered valid
  and, therefore, to be taught to new members as
  the correct way to perceive, think, and feel in
  relation to these problems.
• Schein

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Schein Dissected

• A pattern of shared basic assumptions
• The group learned as it solved its problems of
  external adaptation and internal integration
• That has worked well enough to be considered
  valid
• Is taught to new members as the correct way to
• Perceive
• Think
• Feel

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Myths and Stories (Sea Stories)

• Tales about the organization that are passed down
  over time.
• Frequently repeated
• Occasionally improved
• Sometimes appropriated

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Command Climate

• An organizations atmosphere of support,
  confidence or cohesion (or their opposite)
  created by the commanders acts and example.
• Supportive environment
• Promotes esprit
• Sense of mission
• Agreement on top priorities
• Sense of fair play
• Joy in team work

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Marine Corps Values

• Honor Integrity, Responsibility, Accountability
• Courage Do the right thing, in the right way,
  for the right reason
• Commitment Devotion to the Corps and fellow
  Marines

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Short Paper 2

• Improved Grammar, Proofreading
• Most said Id like to be a combination leader
  or I like being transformational
• 1 said transactional
• My feelings Focus on what you can control your
  knowledge, competence etc.
• Not everyone can be Henry V on St Crispins Day

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Mid Term

• One response framed the failure in terms of
  losing sight of the mission I liked that
• Changing the plan Never vs. when necessary
• No plan survives contact
• Go/No Go criteria
• Sobrief discussion of Marine Corps Planning

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Combat Leadership

• D-Day
• Old School
• Black Hawk Down
• Good description of combat environment
• Generation Kill
• Topical, also description of environment
• Sorry about the language
• Sgt Saalman/Citations
• Personal connection for me
• Lack of Navy examples minimal expertise

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D-Day
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D-Day

• Huge numbers involved
• Probably (hopefully) never again
• Able Co
• Bloody Omaha
• Role of Junior Officers/Staff NCOs
• Example instead of Exhortation
• American way of war

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Blackhawk Down
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Blackhawk Down
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Blackhawk Down
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Black Hawk Down

• Environmental Factors
• Traumatic Injuries
• Confusion

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Generation Kill
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Generation Kill
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Generation Kill

• Sorry about the language
• Recon Officers- Encino Man
• True or not?
• Important Lesson
• More environment
• Tedium, exhaustion, filth

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Fallujah
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Fallujah
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Glamour Article/Citations

• Sgt Saalman
• Fallujah CMOC
• Cpl Mcready
• No front lines
• Citations- written by officers close to action