The most valuable lesson Ⅰ learned from my time at the Intermediate Leadership Education (ILE) course is the importance of consistently applying critical thought, especially as it relates to evaluating our own behavior as leaders. This essential skill has taken on far greater significance to me in light of the complexity and diversity of problems our military currently faces at all levels of leadership: shrinking budgets, strategic realignment, force restructuring, establishing the profession of arms, increased suicide rates, and the list goes on. These issues further highlight the saliency of this invaluable lesson-a lesson that compelled me to write the article "Empirically Based Leadership," published in the Military Review, January-February 2013.
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