Hey folks, welcome back.

This is your host, Mark Devine, with the Unbeatable Podcast.

Thank you for joining me today.

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Today I want to talk about the changing face of leadership, the evolution of leadership,

and how it intersects with the military and our veteran population.

So hang in there with me.

This is going to be very interesting and valuable.

So many people may be aware of this, but they haven't thought about this directly.

But much of leadership theory came out of the military in the fifties.

So the military had a lot of experience, especially coming out of World War II, and organizing

the efforts of large groups of people to accomplish a mission, it makes sense, right?

And so when business was organizing to ramp up productivity at a grand scale, actually

this started before World War II started back around World War I and afterward, with Frederick

Taylor and Henry Ford ramping up production for their automobile companies.

And then it continued throughout the fifties and sixties as what we call the industrial

age flourish.

And so the industrial age leadership and management were largely considered the same thing.

Leadership became effective management, and management science became how you organize for

effective production of labor, or organize labor for effective production of goods.

And so it was largely about doing the right things in the right manner and doing efficiently

and effectively.

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