Naval Leadership and the American Bluejacket
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. [Whittlesey House], 1944. Second printing [stated]. Hardcover. ix, [1], 91, [3] pages. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. No dust jacket present. Naval Training School at Cornell University at Ithaca, NY stamp and pencil notation on fep. There are four chapters: The Attributes and Character of the Naval Leader; The American Bluejacket Today; The Training and Education of the American Bluejacket; and Handling the American Bluejacket. Arthur Ainslie Ageton (October 25, 1900 – April 23, 1971) was a naval officer, ambassador, writer, and writing teacher. He was the United States Ambassador to Paraguay from September 9, 1954, to April 10, 1957. He was also a rear admiral in the Navy. He wrote or cowrote books, including The Naval Officer's Guide, Admiral Ambassador to Russia, Manual of Celestial Navigation, and The Marine Officer's Guide. He graduated from the Naval Academy in 1923 and earned a post-graduate certificate in 1931.[1][2] He earned a master's degree in Modern Writing from Johns Hopkins University in 1953. He served as executive officer aboard the battleship USS Washington, promoted to captain, commanded LST Flotilla 3 in the Southwest Pacific, and received the Bronze Star for bravery at the battle of Leyte Gulf. The problem of leadership in a Navy at war is complicate by crowded living conditions in ships, by long periods at sea and as advanced bases, and by the correspondingly necessary close association between officers and men in life aboard ship. In a Navy expanding to several times its peacetime size, with many thousands of new and inexperienced officers, a new approach to the subject of naval leadership, which is specific and subjective, is needed. This little book is the results of the author's long session of extensive reading in the coursed of preparation of the manuscript of :The Naval Officer's Guide," and from the necessity recently, as Executive Officer of a major ship, to train and assist in orienting some of our new and inexperienced officers in the mot difficult feature of the most exacting profession in the world today. At sea, the young officer is interested in his job and very eager to do the right thing. The only trouble is that he frequently does not know what or how. The material which forms the basis for this book was prepared for two talks to junior officers aboard ship in forward areas. Expanded and clarified, it is presented here in the hope that the specifics offered and the suggestions made may prove helpful to many new, and frequently bewildered, young officers, who have been recently commissioned in the Navy, in abbreviating their apprenticeship. Perhaps these thoughts on naval leadership may serve to break ground for other studies of the one, single, and most serious problems with which we are faced in the fleet today. Condition: Good.
Keywords: Naval Training, Naval Leadership, Bluejacket, Officers, Military Education, Decision-making, Problem-Solving, Military Profession, WWII, Talent Management, Apprenticeship
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