USAF Leadership Development and Transformation

<p>As the USAF addresses today's environment of transformation and the DoD goal of creating a lasting environment in which new ideas can flourish each service must address the leadership requirements created by these demands and ensure an enduring is in place to develop future leaders. In the last few years the USAF has begun leadership development efforts in earnest and is tailoring plans to focus on creating leaders who can adapt to the future demands of the force. One of the challenges faced within the service is that most military transformation strategies still pose the central problem of getting laggards to realize that breaking out of longstanding behaviors is vital and even beneficial.1 Looking specifically at Officer Force Development efforts through the prism of transformation the central question becomes whether or not the AF is creating leaders who can foster transformation and will the efforts last?</p><p>This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore you will see the original copyright references library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world) and other notations in the work.</p><p>This work is in the public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Within the United States you may freely copy and distribute this work as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.</p><p>As a reproduction of a historical artifact this work may contain missing or blurred pages poor pictures errant marks etc. Scholars believe and we concur that this work is important enough to be preserved reproduced and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.</p>