067 - Leadership within the officer corps

In this final episode covering Gen Brown's Accelerate Change or Lose paper, Colin and Reed outline the need for better and institutionalized leadership within the Air Force officer corps.

See Accelerate Change or Lose: https://www.af.mil/Portals/1/documents/csaf/CSAF_22/CSAF_22_Strategic_Approach_Accelerate_Change_or_Lose_31_Aug_2020.pdf)

1:58 - ACOL is a leadership problem (see Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink: https://amzn.to/3af8fE9 and WOTR: Instructors Wanted, Apply Within: https://warontherocks.com/2020/12/instructors-wanted-apply-within-why-the-air-force-is-failing-to-change-its-culture-and-what-to-do-about-it/)
7:59 - The Air Force must reexamine its officers (see Team of Teams by Stanley McChrystal: https://amzn.to/36YH3r9 and Infinite Game by Simon Sinek: https://amzn.to/2ITvOqV)
18:07 - Internal impediments starts with recruiting
22:54 - Impediments within commissioning sources
27:29 - Impediments to the development of officers
32:49 - IImpediments within the promotion system (see WOTR: And Miles to Go Before I Sleep: https://warontherocks.com/2018/11/and-miles-to-go-before-i-sleep-the-air-forces-stratification-problem/)
41:43 - Leadership is the antidote to all that ails us

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