Monday, May 09, 2005

Inspire a new leadership drive

"Though the military has a very hierarchical structure, it's very supportive of those people out on the ground."

"People would not fulfil their potential, he cautioned, if they were banned from ever departing from scripts and could not easily converse with senior figures."

"Whenever people are trained to go to war they are expected to grasp the initiative whenever it presents itself - to not waste the opportunity by wondering what the penalty will be if they get it wrong."

"If the entrepreneur doesn't appreciate that it takes people to turn his vision into action and reality, he's lost it,"

-Philip Chaganis, a retired colonel who was awarded an OBE for his leadership during the first Gulf War, is a co-founder of Icon Training.