Leadership Lab: Iraq by William E. Benson - Now Available

Dec. 22, 2010 - PRLog -- First and foremost, Leadership Lab: Iraq is a book about leadership. It tells the story of one US Army battalion conducting counterinsurgency operations in Iraq from June 2003 to April 2004 and uses that story to reveal lessons in organizational leadership applicable to any leader in any organization. The book focuses on mid-level army officers struggling to understand a complex, foreign and hostile environment; applying conventional training and tactics to a conflict they weren't entirely prepared for. In doing so these army leaders overcame challenges that all organizational leaders face—how to translate ambiguous guidance into a meaningful vision, how to communicate measurable goals, how to accomplish varied, competing tasks without enough resources, and when and where to assume risk. In addition to the leadership lessons, Leadership Lab: Iraq provides insight into the first nine months of counterinsurgency operations against an emerging, adaptive and resilient enemy that should prove informative and useful to future generations of military leaders. The lessons learned are shaped through the prism of additional deployments and six years of reflection by the author.

The author, William E. Benson, is a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army with over 20 years of service and three tours in Iraq. During these tours he has served at the battalion level as an operations officer, military and police transition team leader and most recently as squadron commander. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Political Science, a master’s degree in Instructional Leadership and is currently a War College Fellow at the Army Operational Arts Fellowship, Fort Leavenworth, KS. Bill has published two previous articles on his experiences in Iraq in Armor Magazine (2004) and the Military Intelligence Professional Bulletin (2005). He is married to the love of his life, Tara. They spend most of their time enjoyably raising three great children and one blue heeler.

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