Restore Progress Through Mentoring
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Hughes, Wayne P. Jr.
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2016-02
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If the best officers are not enlightened early in their careers, they will leave the Navy to do something they think is more rewarding, such as making money. The loss of a talented officer is invisible in a system that can only work with what it has. To restore progress in the US Navy, the author believe they should adopt a method of grooming leaders that has worked in the past: Having the best senior officers mentor the best junior officers, quietly and almost invisibly. The Navy does offer some opportunities for mentoring by assigning aides to flag officers, but aides gain experience in administrative efficiency rather than in improving tactics and technology. A more focused program for senior officers was initiated by Admiral Tom Hayward beginning in 1981, in which the CNO selects promising captains for a year of study and the introduction of new ideas in a Strategic Studies Group in Newport.
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Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
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Hughes, Wayne P., Jr. "Restore Progress Through Mentoring," Naval Institute Proceedings, February 2018
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.