Conceptual Leadership Skills for the Twenty-First Century, A Means of Dealing with Complexity, Ambiguity, Uncertainty, And Speed

摘要

This monograph explores how organizational level conceptual skills as defined in Field Manual 22-100, Army Leadership; Select Review Version, dated October 1998 apply to brigade and division level leadership in the upcoming decades. The study evaluates a SASO operation because of its applicability to future military operations based on the current National Security Strategy (NSS) , National Military Strategy (NMS), and the instability of the national security environment. SASO operations typify the conditions, environments, and unstructured problems likely to challenge organizational level leadership in the twenty-first century. Additionally, this study looks at the leadership paradigm academics are describing for the future and the relevance to conceptual skills. The study concludes that future SASO operations will require direct level leadership to perform organizational and potentially strategic level conceptual skills as defined in the new FM 22-100. Organizational level leadership will function in closer proximity to operational and strategic levels of war and exercise organizational and strategic level conceptual skills in SASO operations.