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Book Synopsis Toward A Fail-Safe Air Force Culture: Creating a Resilient Future While Avoiding Past Mistakes by : Todd C. Ericson
Download or read book Toward A Fail-Safe Air Force Culture: Creating a Resilient Future While Avoiding Past Mistakes written by Todd C. Ericson and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Towards a Fail-Safe Air Force Culture by : U. S. Military
Download or read book Towards a Fail-Safe Air Force Culture written by U. S. Military and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inadvertent transportation of nuclear cruise missile warheads on a B-52 from Minot AFB and the shipping of non-nuclear intercontinental ballistic missile components to Taiwan are contemporary incidents that reveal shortcomings. Dr. Schlesinger's 2008 report to the Secretary of Defense documented atrophy in the Air Force's nuclear enterprise as a primary cause for these failures. The report highlighted "a serious erosion of focus, expertise, mission readiness, resources and discipline in the nuclear weapons enterprise within the Air Force." The Secretary of the Air Force Michael Wynne and Air Force Chief of Staff General T. Michael Moseley both resigned in the wake of these incidents, and on October 24th 2008 the new Secretary of the Air Force Michael Donley and Air Force Chief of Staff General Norton Schwartz issued their "Strategic Plan to Reinvigorate the Air Force Nuclear Enterprise." Notably, the strategic plan identified the establishment of a "zero-defect" culture as a primary attribute for a successful Air Force nuclear enterprise, stating "there is no tolerance of complacency or shortcuts as we rebuild a "zero-defect" culture." Each of these incidents represents a catastrophic institutional failure - failures which must be prevented. Ceding the impossibility of omnipresence, Col Goldfein correctly observes that choice of vision and cultural development are leadership's fundamental tools in building a successful organization. The cultural options available to espouse span a continuum from a ruthless Zero-Defects method to a gentler Tolerance-Based style. While a Zero-Defect approach can garner short-term success, the ensuing culture of fear and reprisal are not conducive to sustained excellence. Conversely, a tolerant approach may achieve short-term morale benefits, but the resulting lack of discipline arising out of a culture of ambivalence dampens long-term productivity. Ultimately, long-term high performance is possible through a Fail-Safe culture which paradoxically embraces failure in building a resilient enterprise. Modern research on High Reliability Organizations (HRO), coupled with contemporary leadership theory, provide a framework to expose the shortcomings of both the Zero-Defect and Tolerance-Based approaches, assess current culture and then define the cultural characteristics required to implement a mindful approach to ensuring the Air Force can achieve its mission by maximizing our ability to "fly, fight and win ... in air, space and cyberspace."
Book Synopsis Towards a Fail-safe Air Force Culture by : Todd C. Ericson
Download or read book Towards a Fail-safe Air Force Culture written by Todd C. Ericson and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Commander of the 1st Fighter Wing, Colonel Steve Goldfein, summed up his responsibility stating, -- In the end, commanders do only two things -- provide vision and set the environment. Almost everything you do for the organization falls into one of these categories. Unfortunately, it is often in the wake of incidents, tragedies or failures that shortcomings in either or both are exposed."--Introduction.
Download or read book Selling Air Power written by Steve Call and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Selling Air Power, Steve Call provides the first comprehensive study of the efforts of post-war air power advocates to harness popular culture in support of their agenda. In the 1940s and much of the 1950s, hardly a month went by without at least one blatantly pro-air power article appearing in general interest magazines. Public fascination with flight helped create and sustain exaggerated expectations for air power in the minds of both its official proponents and the American public. Articles in the Saturday Evening Post, Reader's Digest, and Life trumpeted the secure future assured by American air superiority. Military figures like Henry H. "Hap" Arnold and Curtis E. LeMay, radio-television personalities such as Arthur Godfrey, cartoon figures like Steve Canyon, and actors like Jimmy Stewart played key roles in the unfolding campaign. Movies like Twelve O'Clock High!, The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell, and A Gathering of Eagles projected onto the public imagination vivid images confirming what was coming to be the accepted wisdom: that America's safety against the Soviet threat could best be guaranteed by air power, coupled with nuclear capability. But as the Cold War continued and the specter of the mushroom cloud grew more prominent in American minds, another, more sinister interpretation began to take hold. Call chronicles the shift away from the heroic, patriotic posture of the years just after World War II, toward the threatening, even bizarre imagery of books and movies like Catch-22, On the Beach, and Dr. Strangelove. Call's careful analysis goes beyond the public relations campaigns to probe the intellectual climate that shaped them and gave them power. Selling Air Power adds a critical layer of understanding to studies in military and aviation history, as well as American popular culture.
Book Synopsis Burnout or Breakout by : John Messer
Download or read book Burnout or Breakout written by John Messer and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-01-27 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can church leaders be effective without sacrificing their marriage, their family, or their health in the process? How can good leaders get stuck churches unstuck without becoming another casualty? Burnout or Breakout provides answers to both. The burnout epidemic among church leaders, combined with cultural volatility, uncertainty, and complexity catalyze with unhealthy church processes to get churches stuck. All these forces combine to stifle good leaders until it seems that no reasonable leadership effort can succeed. This book brings new insights to churches and church leaders frustrated with making tireless efforts to move the church, yet constantly falling short of their goals and objectives. It helps church leaders avoid quick-fix solutions that actually keep churches stuck by applying systemic, long-term solutions. This book brings hope to stifled leaders on the verge of burnout. Building on biblical and experiential evidence, the author presents burnout as a systemic problem. Seeing from a systems perspective enables leaders to discover how their church really works and provides tools and strategies to help them realign their church system for health and effectiveness. Based on a comprehensive introduction to systems thinking, leaders are encouraged to see their congregations as complex systems of interrelated and interdependent elements. Effective leadership, from a systems perspective, aligns the church to achieve intended outcomes. Based on the account of Jethro and Moses in Exodus 18, leaders are equipped to identify and diagnose church systems designed for burnout and provides strategies to overcome the stifling forces within the church. Leaders are further equipped to apply systemic thinking to common church system problems, such as declining attendance, mission confusion, and volunteer shortages. Brings hope that stifled leaders and stuck churches can break out of their limiting conditions by investing time and effort to learn and practice seeing from a new systems perspective.
Download or read book Test Gods written by Nicholas Schmidle and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice In the spirit of The Right Stuff, updated for the 21st century, Test Gods is an epic story about extreme bravery and sacrifice, about the thin line between lunacy and genius. Most of all, it is a story about the pursuit of meaning in our lives—and the fulfillment of our dreams. Working from exclusive inside reporting, New Yorker writer Nicholas Schmidle tells the remarkable story of the test pilots, engineers, and visionaries behind Virgin Galactic’s campaign to build a space tourism company. Schmidle follows a handful of characters—Mark Stucky, Virgin’s lead test pilot; Richard Branson, the eccentric billionaire funding the venture; Mike Moses, the grounded, unflappable president; Mike Alsbury, the test pilot killed in a fatal crash; and others—through personal and professional dramas, in pursuit of their collective goal: to make space tourism a reality. Along the way, Schmidle weaves his relationship with his father—a former fighter pilot and decorated war hero—into the tragedies and triumphs that Branson’s team confronts out in the Mojave desert as they design, build, and test-fly their private rocket ship. Gripping and novelistic, Test Gods leads us, through human drama, into a previously unseen world—and beyond.
Book Synopsis Cross-cultural Skills for Deployed Air Force Personnel by : Chaitra M. Hardison
Download or read book Cross-cultural Skills for Deployed Air Force Personnel written by Chaitra M. Hardison and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2009 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because of its strong interest in providing airmen with the cross-cultural skills that have grown ever more essential to successful mission accomplishment in foreign environments, the Air Force asked RAND to provide a foundation for the design of a comprehensive Air Force program of cross-cultural training and education. RAND researchers responded by first creating a taxonomy covering all behaviors relevant to cross-cultural performance after the need for such a taxonomy became evident from a review of the literature on cross-cultural performance and discussions with Air Force personnel. From this taxonomy, the researchers developed a framework of 14 categories of cross-cultural behaviors--nine categories of enabling behaviors and five of goal-oriented behaviors. This framework was then used in designing a survey for 21,000 recently deployed airmen that asked them to rate the importance of the behaviors to their deployed performance and the helpfulness of training they had received in the behaviors (both over their careers and just prior to deployment). Respondents were also asked to indicate how much training they had received. Recommendations and suggestions for the design of a comprehensive program of cross-cultural training and education and for further research steps were made based on extensive analyses of the results, which included determining whether training needs differed by AFSC, grade (enlisted/officer), and deployment location.
Book Synopsis The United States Air Force and the Culture of Innovation, 1945-1965 by : Stephen B. Johnson
Download or read book The United States Air Force and the Culture of Innovation, 1945-1965 written by Stephen B. Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Air Force Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fail-Safe written by Eugene Burdick and published by Rosetta Books. This book was released on 2013-09-27 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times–bestselling authors, this “chilling and engrossing” nuclear-showdown thriller packs “a multi-megaton wallop” (Chicago Tribune). Originally published during the Cuban Missile Crisis, this suspenseful novel takes off as a group of American bombers—armed with a deadly payload of nuclear weapons—heads towards Moscow, their motives unknown. Suddenly, a nuclear apocalypse looms closer than it ever has, and the lives of millions depend on the high-stakes diplomacy of leaders on both sides of the divide. The basis for the classic 1964 movie starring Henry Fonda, this two-million-copy bestseller is not only a terrifying thriller, but a fascinating social commentary on Cold War politics and a look at how, in a world poised on the brink, accidents and mistakes can have catastrophic consequences. Exploring the thin line between peace and global destruction that characterized this turbulent era, it is as timely as ever—“gripping, exciting and almost unbearably fascinating” (Los Angeles Times). “Excruciatingly tense.” —The Wall Street Journal
Book Synopsis Sharing success--owning failure : preparing to command in the twenty-first century Air Force by : David L. Goldfein
Download or read book Sharing success--owning failure : preparing to command in the twenty-first century Air Force written by David L. Goldfein and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Then-colonel David L. Goldfein discusses several themes central to a successful command tour. His ideas and questions will spark your imagination as you begin preparing for the task ahead of you--squadron commander. He shares stories from other squadron commanders that include both success and failure because, as Goldfein states, "it is from studying our failures that we learn, grow, and improve as officers and leaders." Maj Gen Charles D. Link, USAF, retired, states that "this book is a must-read, not only for those selected to command a squadron but for all our young officers." General Goldfein is the current chief of staff of the Air Force."--
Book Synopsis Air Force Smart Operations for the Twenty-First Century: Identifying Potential Failure Points in Sustaining Continuous Process Improvement Across the Air Force by : III Major Usafr Harold W Linnean
Download or read book Air Force Smart Operations for the Twenty-First Century: Identifying Potential Failure Points in Sustaining Continuous Process Improvement Across the Air Force written by III Major Usafr Harold W Linnean and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-09-09 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Air Force Smart Operations for the Twenty-first Century (AFSO 21) is the Air Force's initiative to recapitalize funds by maximizing value and minimizing waste in operations. This is a fundamental shift by the Air Force toward a desired end state of continuous process improvement. Will AFSO 21 change the culture of the Air Force? A successful change requires a balance between the system components of culture, vision, structure, leadership, and systems. Air Force leadership may avoid failure in its AFSO 21 implementation if it addresses potential failure points before they fester and take root. The first potential failure point is focusing only on culture and thus creating an unbalanced system or organization. The next potential failure point is the inflexibility of the Air Force structure. A third potential failure point is its human resource management systems. When it comes to "quality" programs, Air Force midlevel officers are experiencing déjà vu. How will midlevel officers accept it? The failure to win over Generation TQM, the midlevel officers, is a fourth potential failure point for the sustainment of AFSO 21. Does the Air Force have a vision for AFSO 21? The Air Force must rectify this disparity between vision and message and remove a final potential failure point in sustaining AFSO 21. This paper identifies potential failure points associated with the changing Air Force culture. Overall, the Air Force's change plan appears to be proceeding according to schedule. However, it does not appear that the Air Force is adequately planning for a long-term sustainment of AFSO 21. There is still time for Air Force senior leadership to correct the system's alignment and put AFSO 21 on track for long-term sustainment. A culture of continuous process improvement will take root once the Air Force leadership fully commits to AFSO 21.
Book Synopsis Air Force Culture by : United States. Department of the Air Force
Download or read book Air Force Culture written by United States. Department of the Air Force and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Just Culture Principles in Aviation Law by : Francesca Pellegrino
Download or read book The Just Culture Principles in Aviation Law written by Francesca Pellegrino and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-09-09 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reviews and critically analyzes the current legal framework with regard to a more just culture for the aviation sector. This new culture is intended to protect front-line operators, in particular controllers and pilots, from legal action (except in the case of willful misconduct or gross negligence) by creating suitable laws, regulations and standards. In this regard, it is essential to have an environment in which all incidents are reported, moving away from fears of criminalization. The approach taken until now has been to seek out human errors and identify the individuals responsible. This punitive approach does not solve the problem because frequently the system itself is (also) at fault. Introducing the framework of a just culture could ensure balanced accountability for both individuals and complex organizations responsible for improving safety. Both aviation safety and justice administration would benefit from this carefully established equilibrium.
Book Synopsis One Nation Underground by : Kenneth D. Rose
Download or read book One Nation Underground written by Kenneth D. Rose and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2004-05 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why some Americans built fallout shelters—an exploration America's Cold War experience For the half-century duration of the Cold War, the fallout shelter was a curiously American preoccupation. Triggered in 1961 by a hawkish speech by John F. Kennedy, the fallout shelter controversy—"to dig or not to dig," as Business Week put it at the time—forced many Americans to grapple with deeply disturbing dilemmas that went to the very heart of their self-image about what it meant to be an American, an upstanding citizen, and a moral human being. Given the much-touted nuclear threat throughout the 1960s and the fact that 4 out of 5 Americans expressed a preference for nuclear war over living under communism, what's perhaps most striking is how few American actually built backyard shelters. Tracing the ways in which the fallout shelter became an icon of popular culture, Kenneth D. Rose also investigates the troubling issues the shelters raised: Would a post-war world even be worth living in? Would shelter construction send the Soviets a message of national resolve, or rather encourage political and military leaders to think in terms of a "winnable" war? Investigating the role of schools, television, government bureaucracies, civil defense, and literature, and rich in fascinating detail—including a detailed tour of the vast fallout shelter in Greenbriar, Virginia, built to harbor the entire United States Congress in the event of nuclear armageddon—One Nation, Underground goes to the very heart of America's Cold War experience.
Book Synopsis Understanding the Air Force Culture by :
Download or read book Understanding the Air Force Culture written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Air Force has a rich, distinct culture that developed naturally from its historic origins, its unique view that technology in the third dimension could bring about a totally different manner of conducting war, and its emphasis on individual accomplishments. Most programs in the Air Force are consistent with this technology-based culture, but problems arise because of the failure to understand the various implications of this culture. An understanding of the Air Force's culture can explain many of its current beliefs and actions, and senior leaders should understand the role that culture plays in determining the eventual success of the organization. More importantly, an understanding of the Air Force's culture can enable senior leaders to know how to lead it into the future.
Book Synopsis "Over Not Through" by : Paula G. Thornhill
Download or read book "Over Not Through" written by Paula G. Thornhill and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2012 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2010 RAND summer study explored how the Air Force contributes uniquely to the nation's security. The group concluded that the Air Force serves the nation best when it creatively marshals its human capital and material resources to provide the President and his advisors with innovative, implementable solutions to developing, tough national security challenges. During this study, the importance of a strong, common culture kept emerging. What follows is a brief exploration of the foundations of Air Force culture, that is, its cultural narrative. The different narratives described in the document stem from identifying major moments when the Air Force's focus significantly shifted. Some, but not all, of these shifts are associated with wartime.
