thedrifter
05-23-04, 06:51 AM
Marine Corps Leadership Principles
Know yourself and seek self-improvement.
Be technically and tactically proficient.
Develop a sense of responsibility among your subordinates.
Make sound and timely decisions.
Set the example.
Know your Marines and look out for their welfare.
Keep your Marines informed.
Seek responsibility and take responsibility for your actions.
Ensure assigned tasks are understood, supervised, and accomplished.
Train your Marines as a team.
Employ your command in accordance with its capabilities.
Marine Corps Leadership Traits
Dependability: The certainty of proper performance of duty.
Bearing: Creating a favorable impression in carriage, appearance and personal conduct at all times.
Courage: The mental quality that recognizes fear of danger or criticism, but enables a man to proceed in the face of it with calmness and firmness.
Decisiveness: Ability to make decisions promptly and to announce them in clear, forceful manner.
Endurance: The mental and physical stamina measured by the ability to withstand pain, fatigue, stress and hardship.
Enthusiasm: The display of sincere interest and exuberance in the performance of duty.
Initiative: Taking action in the absence of orders.
Integrity: Uprightness of character and soundness of moral principles; includes the qualities of truthfulness and honesty.
Judgment: The ability to weigh facts and possible solutions on which to base sound decisions.
Justice: Giving reward and punishment according to merits of the case in question. The ability to administer a system of rewards and punishments impartially and consistently.
Knowledge: Understanding of a science or an art. The range of one's information, including professional knowledge and an understanding of your Marines.
Tact: The ability to deal with others without creating offense.
Unselfishness: Avoidance of providing for one's own comfort and personal advancement at the expense of others.
Loyalty: The quality of faithfulness to country, the Corps, the unit, to one's seniors, subordinates and peers.
The Drifter's Wife
Ellie
Know yourself and seek self-improvement.
Be technically and tactically proficient.
Develop a sense of responsibility among your subordinates.
Make sound and timely decisions.
Set the example.
Know your Marines and look out for their welfare.
Keep your Marines informed.
Seek responsibility and take responsibility for your actions.
Ensure assigned tasks are understood, supervised, and accomplished.
Train your Marines as a team.
Employ your command in accordance with its capabilities.
Marine Corps Leadership Traits
Dependability: The certainty of proper performance of duty.
Bearing: Creating a favorable impression in carriage, appearance and personal conduct at all times.
Courage: The mental quality that recognizes fear of danger or criticism, but enables a man to proceed in the face of it with calmness and firmness.
Decisiveness: Ability to make decisions promptly and to announce them in clear, forceful manner.
Endurance: The mental and physical stamina measured by the ability to withstand pain, fatigue, stress and hardship.
Enthusiasm: The display of sincere interest and exuberance in the performance of duty.
Initiative: Taking action in the absence of orders.
Integrity: Uprightness of character and soundness of moral principles; includes the qualities of truthfulness and honesty.
Judgment: The ability to weigh facts and possible solutions on which to base sound decisions.
Justice: Giving reward and punishment according to merits of the case in question. The ability to administer a system of rewards and punishments impartially and consistently.
Knowledge: Understanding of a science or an art. The range of one's information, including professional knowledge and an understanding of your Marines.
Tact: The ability to deal with others without creating offense.
Unselfishness: Avoidance of providing for one's own comfort and personal advancement at the expense of others.
Loyalty: The quality of faithfulness to country, the Corps, the unit, to one's seniors, subordinates and peers.
The Drifter's Wife
Ellie