> 3,000 U.S. Air Force captains at a military base in Alabama
following the link given to the research shows it was actually 222 captains...
following the link given to the research shows it was actually 222 captains...
Participants: Our sample consisted of 3108 Captains in the United States Air Force who participated in a five-week leadership development course. They were randomly assigned to a 14-person MTS (there were 222 systems in our sample) for the duration of the course,
Blindly decomposing the buzzword:
- team := at least 2 individuals
- multiteam := at least 2 teams
That's a naive implied floor of 888 individuals in context.
It isn't difficult to infer that the Alabama installation in question is Maxwell AFB. But where on Maxwell AFB can one realistically find a high concentration of captains? Squadron Officer School[1].
Reasonable? Sure; I think the authors very easily pass the sniff test here.
"Intuitive introverts lead the most successful teams" is not a conclusion you can draw here, even if those terms were well-defined (and they are not, at least not in front of the paywall).
The other thing that is tempting about the study is that the military does have lots of leadership, organizational, discipline, and political demands that are probably as bad as or worse than any corp. And add to that the low pay compared to corps.