Leadership
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The trust deficit – why do we expect logistics to fail us?
By Gabrielle M. Follett. Trust. The willingness of a party to be vulnerable to the actions of another party based on the expectation that the other will perform a particular action important to the trustor, irrespective of the ability of… Continue reading
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Leading small-team logistics
By Chris Paparone. Steven Menschelyi recently described in a great article how armies can manage combat service support units best if it sees them as they really are: a collection of mission-focused teams. As a CSS Bn Cdr, I came… Continue reading
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Establishing an ‘unequal dialogue’ between the logistician and the commander
By Steve Cornell ‘My logisticians are a humorless lot … they know if my campaign fails, they are the first ones I will slay.’ – attributed to Alexander the Great Logisticians can be a misunderstood lot, which is probably why… Continue reading
The Paper War: Logistics... and everything but the fighting. 