"If you're a rifle-company commander or an SOF-team commander, you may well be a casualty of the first bullet," Schoomaker says. "If that happens, and if the unit that you trained has the discipline and the character to accomplish its objective without you, then that's a reflection of your commitment and your contribution. Ultimately, the most effective measure of a leader is the performance of his unit in his absence."
Eli Cohen (ecohen@zbi.com) is the research director at the Michigan Business School. Noel Tichy (tichy@umich.edu) is a professor at Michigan Business School. They are co-authors of a book, "The Leadership Engine: How Winning Companies Build Leaders at Every Level" (HarperBusiness, 1997). You can learn more about the U.S. Special Operations Command on the Web (www.socom.mil).
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