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Associate Curator and GeneralLeadership.com CGO, Colonel Chris R. Stricklin shares the Friendship of Leadership. He explains that a dynamic leader truly cares about everyone they lead, wants to know them personally, and is responsible for looking out for their best interest. Inseparable concepts, friendship and leadership must both be based on accountability, commitment and authenticity.
Which would you prefer? A team of followers engaged from the neck up or employees engaged from the shoulders down?
Chris R. Stricklin is a leader, mentor and coach integrating the fields of negotiations, leadership skills, public relations, public speaking and complex organizational change. His unique experience as a U.S.A.F. Thunderbird coupled with Pentagon-level management of critical Air Force resources valued at $840B, multiple N.A.T.O. assignments and command-experience in the United States Air Force allow his unique synthesis of speaking, leading, management, negotiations and continuous improvement. Chris is also a Certified Manager with degrees in Economics, Financial Planning, Strategic Studies and Operational Art and Science. He authored a negotiation primer which was subsequently published and adopted as required Air Force Pentagon new action officer orientation. He and his wife, Terri, have 4 children.
