Tuesday, September 10, 2002

The After Action Review - The AAR At the heart of the US Army's work to devlop a Collegial Culture where all ranks could have straight talk is the AAR. David Gurteen has the best analyisi that I know of what it is. The Army themselves describe it as follows. My favourite journalist Tom Stewart has brought his own spin to the AAR as well. Col Ed Guthrie who played a major role in the Pentagon in developing and deploying the AAR then went on to help BP use it as the foundation of its own journey to a Collegial Culture 2:04:11 PM    comment []

Desert Storm - Already big movement in culture The best book on the progress today of the US Army is General Sullivan and Col Mike Harper's book - "Hope is Not a Method". Here is an excellent book review that will give you a sense of how the Army made the step up to a "Collegial Culture". I ma convinced that there is no collaboration until there has been a facilitated change to a "Collegial Culture" What is a Collegial Culture? It is the type of culture that we found paradoxically in the U Boat where 30,000 out of 40,000 total complement died but morale remained high until the surrender. How? Because on a U Boat all the men lived the same life and all died together. The Captain was the Captain but all had a key role to play and all had access to each other as men. This type of culture maximizes the power of the full energy and intelligence of all the unit and gives all an honoured place. A Collegial Culture is not a democracy. But it is a culture where we are all listened too and valued for what we do. 1:54:24 PM    comment []