America's Army

Both the public and many scholars assert that both federal and international efforts such as peacekeeping efforts and disaster management have been failures because agencies and governments fail to cooperate. In this book, retired BG Bradford and LTG Brown propose that the U.S. Army be used as a model for improvement and interagency cooperation. They portray the Army as a "constantly evolving learning organization." By carefully selecting and adacpting specific programs and procedures, they explain that since the Vietnam War, the Army has improved its ability to meet its daily demands and execute its missions. This has enabled the Army to take the lead in international cooperation efforts, the war on terrorism, and in stabilization and development efforts around the world.

This book can be found in HECSA Library:

America's Army: A Model for Interagency Effectiveness
Zeb B. Bradford, Jr., and Frederic J. Brown
UA 25 .B64 2008

The Five Literacies of Global Leadership

Hames asserts that the current leadership standard is a mess of flawed models and practices that will continue to be practiced by the next generation of leaders unless some new understanding is reached. By observing exceptional leaders, Hames has found that they share a group of thought processes and behavior traits. He has captured these and translated them into the five literacies of leadership. The first of these, networked intelligence, suggests that all information is connected, is situational, and depends on the environment in which it exists. The second of these, futuring, asserts that effective leaders are always looking for patterns and thinking about how things happening today will affect the future. The third literacy, strategic navigation, recommends that while you plan for today, you develop contingencies and stragies to guide you into your desired future. The fourth literacy, deep design, is an appreciation for diversity, multiple perspectives, and discussion with others that give leaders a broader view than they would have alone. The final literacy, brand resonance, recommends that leaders and their organizations work to develop a consistent image, communicating openly with their stakeholders, rather than relying on spin or damage control to repair poor judgements. This is a complex, sophisticated look at how leaders think and operate and will cause readers to consider their own leadership behaviors more consciously.

This book can be found in HECSA Library:

The Five Literacies of Global Leadership: What Authentic Leaders Know and You Need to Find Out
Richard David Hames
HM 1261 .H35 2007

The Engineer of 2020

The Engineer of 2020 Project is an effort to envision the future and predict what roles engineers might play in it. At the same time, it is used as a framework for engineering education in order to prepare future engineers for these roles. This report is a culmination of the first part of this project. It attempts to develop scenarios in which engineering expertise will be used in the future and to describe the roles that engineers will play in 2020. The next phase of this project will analyze and evaluate the effect on engineering education that this vision of 2020 will have and how to begin making changes now in order to prepare for it.

This book can be found in HECSA Library:

The Engineer of 2020: Visions of Engineering in the New Century
National Academy of Engineering of the National Academies
TA 157 .E535 2004