Blog about Leadership

The US Army uses the “leadership” acronym to teach the Army’s Core Values to new recruits. The acronym helps recruits to remember each of the core values as well as associate those values with attributes of leadership.

The Army’s Core Values:

• L – Loyalty
• D – Duty
• R – Respect
• S – Selfless service
• H – Honor
• I – Integrity
• P – Personal Courage

In a previous entry, I addressed the relationship between leadership and ethics. The Army’s use of the “leadership” acronym to present the Core Values is simply brilliant. It instills the concept of the association of having values with being a leader as elementary to understanding leadership and values.

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