Associate Curator and GeneralLeadership.com CGO, Colonel Chris R. Stricklin discusses the importance of friendship in leadership.
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.
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Beautiful ! Just beautiful ! But did you hear the warnings? Man oh man, it’s a tough road to travel to learn how to be a follower. It’s not something you learn by reading a book, you must be in an environment where quitting is not an option, and then be hammered into a “follower”. Once you learn to take a face full of fingers and realize that you can continue functioning effectively, then you are on your path to becoming a follower. The path to becoming a leader is tougher, you must learn and internalize the behavior patterns to “Get in someone’s face”, if you lack the courage to do that, then you will never become an effective leader. It’s a pointless exercise to learn the higher levels of leadership if you do not have the solid foundation to “Get in someone’s face.”