Review of IOT

[chrisburden21]

"Tomorrow's Officer" willing to take risks!!
http://www.leadership-studies.com/documents/leadership-refrains.pdf (Pages 15-18)

[16 blades]

So this is the kind of thing those in academia waste their time (and our money) doing? What a load of bollocks! I'd be interested to take a 'w@nk word' count from that document, but I can't be arsed.

Perhaps their next study will be entitled "A focussed effects-based needs-orientated triangulation of the defecatory habits of woodland-based bears"

16B

[engineer(retard)]

16B

Are you sure this was academia?

The attributable workstreams included:

" Narratives, stories and cases"

"Learning through play"

Sounds more like nursery to me.

Retard

[Stan Bydike]

Interesting how a lot of the papers submitted equate leadership with management.

To me that has always been a contradiction in terms where, nowadays we have too much network centric air power management, and not enough leadership:E

[AllTrimDoubt]

Words fail m......

[MovinWings]

Sadly, Exactly this style of material is in common use in the present RAF training system. Pity.

'Can't move a Pine Pole' without a hard hat & Goggles...... Oh Dear......

MW

[mystic_meg]

and that many graduates had an inability to relate to other ranks in general and SNCOs and WOs in particular.

....'nuff said, methinks...:mad:

[Red Line Entry]

I like the fact they include Sun Tzu and "The Art of War" in the References.

Always worth putting that or a bit of Clausewitz in - makes you look erudite!

[DSAT Man]

I say give the new course a chance. It can't be any worse than the 'amateur psychologist, assess rather than train' bollocks I endured in the mid-eighties.