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When I joined the Royal Naval College Dartmouth as a cadet just after World War II, there was no place in the military vocabulary for phrases like ‘management skills’. Everyone had been so busy exercising these skills that there was neither the need nor the spare capacity to study what these skills might be. Shorthand phrases like ‘the Divisional system’, ‘the seaman’s eye’ and ‘officer-like qualities’ said it all. The Royal Navy at that time was large and manpower intensive and the young leader learnt the skills of managing his responsibilities by what today would be described as on-job training. He was expected to get it right but if not, the ‘snotties nurse’ was there to make sure he learnt from his mistakes.
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Page, M.R.H. (1981). Management of Military Organization. In: Singleton, W.T. (eds) Management Skills. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-9476-4_4
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