Military Leadership Philosophy Essay

Since beginning of civilization there has always been a person that others have looked up to and followed. That person has many titles but most familiar title we know is “The Leader.” Every leader in history has had different traits and style that made them different from one other. But every one of them believed in something. They had their own leadership philosophy that they followed. I have a leadership philosophy, it may not be as great as “Alexander the Great” but it is my own. My leadership Philosophy has, and will always be, hands-on leadership, not micromanaging, but letting my soldiers get down and dirty. Most people think that this type of leadership is butting in with your soldiers’ work every ten-minutes and doing the work for them. But my style of hands-on is giving the soldier purpose of direction and have the soldier drive the mission and see where it’s going to go. The only time I would ever interfere is when my soldier is way off course then I will provide him with a hint or point to the right direction. I believe this type of leadership will make the soldier evolve and do the research. From my own experience, doing the research and not doing the research is a totally different impact. …show more content…
But instead when you are given the information it was too easy and your mind forgets about the info only relying on the source. In my opinion that is horrible idea, a single point of failure, you are literally letting the soldier drown at open sea. I understand that we as NCO need to pass down our knowledge but if we only give them the answers the soldiers are not learning just listening. My leadership style is simple: hands-on. Listening does not require hands-on, and learning requires applying the mind as well as the body; whether it is looking it up on regulation, doing the research, or experiencing it by failing and learning from your own