What West Point defines as art of leadership
When Mike McDannell and John A. Spears, two senior leadership training officers from West Point of USA, came to the management forum on April 26 in Fudan’s School of Management, they’ve defined 12 principles of leadership which tell the secret behind why the West Point is what it is now.
Their speech of “Art of leadership and exploration in West Point” has unfolded those principles as following: to clearly define your destination and supportive reasons, to have a philosophy on leadership, to have a clear and reasonable expectation, to ensure your people a busy and meaningful career, to ensure your people a right to decide how to do their work, to be attentive to assisting your people in climbing up the corporate ladder, to create an environment for life-long study, to respect others, to stick to your rules of ethics, to listen to the voices of your people, to encourage a positive attitude, to have a sense of humor.
In order to give a convincing tone to such conclusion, the two senior training officers brought along all kinds of vivid evidences, and actively engaged themselves into the interaction with the school students who were attending the forum.
Mike McDannell holds engineering diploma conferred by West Point and MBA diploma by Yale University. Equipped with rich expertise in consultancy services for international big-name companies including FORTUNE 1000 listed, he is working for Wharton Business School, EMBA programs in Villanova University, and The Marshall Center for International Cooperation, NATO, among others. He is now on the board of Freedom Foundations.
John A. Spears has rich experiences providing consultancy services for FORTUNE 1000 companies in fields of manufacturing, finance, telecommunications, etc.
April 29, 2008
