The Leadership Summit (archived)

Abstract

Executive Summary: In January 2000, the Honorable Jerry Hultin, then Under Secretary of the Navy, convened 19 mid-grade officers at the Center for Executive Education at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. The course was called "30 Something," and was a seminal innovation by senior leadership to tap the ideas of mid-level Navy executives. The group was given free rein to envision their Navy/Marine Corps of 2020. While many ideas were developed the group focused around their core vision of a Navy/Marine Corps that could "attract and retain great people." A central part of this goal was leadership.