Be * Know * Do, Adapted from the Official Army Leadership Manual Quotes

“Leadership is influencing people—by providing purpose, direction, and motivation—while operating to accomplish the mission and improving the organization.”
― U.S. Army, Be * Know * Do: Leadership the Army Way

“It doesn’t mean coddling them or making training easy or comfortable. In fact, that kind of training can get soldiers killed. Training must be rigorous and as much like combat as is possible while being safe.”
― U.S. Department of the Army, Be * Know * Do: Leadership the Army Way

“People with different personalities, different approaches, different values succeed not because one set of values or practices is superior, but because their values and practices are genuine.”
― U.S. Department of the Army, Be * Know * Do: Leadership the Army Way

“In our experience, good judgment comes from certain habits of mind. Those with good judgment are always curious, always learning. They make it their business to know as much about the world as possible, and don’t confine their curiosity to their own narrow range of expertise, whatever it may be. They are students of human nature. They listen more than they talk. Because they have a lifetime of inquiry and learning, when a crisis erupts, they have a storehouse of knowledge to rely on beyond their own experience. And because they have developed a habit of listening, they can accept advice.”
― U.S. Department of the Army, Be * Know * Do: Leadership the Army Way

“The real leverage in developing leaders has to do with the Be component. Give me a soldier who has that part right, and I can teach her to do anything. Give me a soldier who doesn’t, and all the knowledge and skills in the world will not make up for a lack of character.”3”
― U.S. Department of the Army, Be * Know * Do: Leadership the Army Way