Leadership lessons from the British Army’s 'serve to lead' motto

摘要

In July 1944, Sydney Jary entered World War II as the platoon commander of 18 Platoon,4th Battalion The Somerset Light Infantry, in Northern France. Survival rates for a youngofficer at the time were a matter of weeks.Defying the odds, Jary led his platoon through months of bitter fighting, from the fields ofNormandy through to the end of the war in Germany almost a year later. His memoirs, 18 Platoon, an insightful read for anyone seeking to understand the essence of leadership,has long been a standard text of the officer cadets at the Royal Military AcademySandhurst (RMAS), training to be the next generation of British Army officers.