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DTIC ADA430467: Strategic Leadership Primer

General Marshall is alleged to have made this observation as he reflected upon his early years as Chief of Staff of the United States Army (CSA) in the months prior to World War II. It is obvious from this comment that Marshall believed that his previous education, training, and experience had not adequately prepared him for the leadership role he had embarked upon. As the CSA, his success depended upon his ability to persuade influential people and organizations, both internal and external to the government, to employ their efforts on behalf of his vision of a winning wartime strategy and for the mobilization of the Army necessary to make that strategy a reality. General Marshall's particular insights in this matter support the belief that above the direct and organizational levels is a third level of leadership, the strategic level.

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