“Command
is for the individual who loves responsibility, that is one of the
challenges of leadership. It’s yours twenty-four hours a day. Command is
an assignment that you were totally responsible for all the activities
within that unit. There is an intrinsic reward; it is satisfying a need
to be able to project a certain amount of order and discipline to yield
results. That’s your reward, that you did it, to want bigger and bigger
responsibilities. To seek it, but it was not ambition, but the
challenge of taking on the toughest responsibilities.”Admiral Paul David Miller
Despite firings, CNO sees no command crisis.
ReplyDeleteThe Navy's record-setting pace of skipper firings this year has stirred debate inside the lifelines about why so many leaders are running amok, with some sacked early in their command for what appear to be character flaws like dishonesty, womanizing and alcohol abuse.