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Notes
1. Richard A. Gabriel and Paul L. Savage, Crisis in Command:
Mismanagement in the Army (New York: Hill and Wang, 1978),
20–21, provides a good discussion of the Army’s reaction to the
perception of being overmanaged in the Vietnam War.
2. Donn Starry, Press On! Selected Works of General Donn A.
Starry, vol. 1, ed. Lewis Sorley (Fort Leavenworth, KS: U.S. Army
Combined Arms Center, Combat Studies Institute, 2009), 538.
3. Brice H. Johnson, “It’s Time to Rethink Business Training for
the SES [senior executive service],” Government Executive website,
23 February 2016, 1, accessed 19 April 2016, https://www.govexec.com/media/gbc/docs/pdfs_edit/022216kp1.pdf.
4. Business administration is the most common graduate degree held by Army officers in 2016, with 2,752 officers that have a
degree in that subject. David Martino, Human Resource Command
(HRC), e-mail to author, HRC analysis, 17 March 2016.
5. Army Regulation 5-1, Management of Army Business Operations (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, November 2015).
6. Johnson, “It’s Time to Rethink,” 2.
7. Maj. Gen. Christopher Hughes, chief of staff, U.S. Army
Pacific Command, e-mail to author, 28 February 2016.
8. “Fort Stewart-Hunter Army Airfield Wins Army Gold,
Named Best Installation for Sixth Time,” SavannahNow website,
27 April 2015, accessed 19 April 2016, http://savannahnow.com/
latest-news/2015-04-27/fort-stewart-hunter-army-airfield-wins-army-gold-named-best-installation.
9. Col. Townley R. Hedrick, Fort Stewart, Georgia, garrison
commander, e-mail to author, 3 March 2016.
10. Memorandum, Headquarters U.S. Army Garrison (USAG),
Fort Stewart/Hunter Army Airfield, Fort Stewart, Georgia, USAG
Fort Stewart and Hunter Army Airfield Army Communities of
Excellence Commander’s Narrative, undated.
11. George T. Doran, “There’s a S.M.A.R.T. Way to Write Management’s Goals and Objectives,” Management Review 70 (1981):
35–36.

12. Col. Evan M. Rentz, Brooke Army Medical Center commander, telephone conversation with author, 9 December 2015;
Rentz, e-mail to author, 1 March 2016.
13. “What is Lean Six Sigma?” Lean Six Sigma Institute website, accessed 19 April 2016, http://www.leansixsigmainstitute.
org/#!what-is-lss/c18pr. “Lean Six Sigma is a methodology to improve productivity and profitability. It is described on the organization’s website: Lean, developed by Toyota, improves service speed
or lead time by eliminating the waste in any process. Six Sigma, developed by Motorola, improves the quality of products and services
by eliminating variability. Working together, Lean and Six Sigma
improves the speed and quality of any process in any industry.”
14. Visit by the author to Watervliet Arsenal, New York, 10
February 2016; Col. Lee H. Schiller Jr., e-mail to author, 2 March
2016.
15. Maj. Gen. Allan Batschelet, e-mail to author, 23 April 2015.
16. Ibid.
17. Ann Gilley, The Manager As Change Leader (Westport,
CT: Praeger, 2005), 4.
18. Regional Health Command-Central (Provisional) Public Affairs Office, “Regional Health Command-Central Attains
Provisional Status,” Army.mil website, 19 October 2015, accessed 19 April 2016, http://www.army.mil/article/157322/
Regional_Health_Command_Central_attains_provisional_status/.
19. “MEDCOM Reorganization TDA Approval Decision Brief,”
U.S. Army Medical Command PowerPoint presentation, 23 September 2015.
20. Brig. Gen. J.P. (Pete) Johnson, e-mail to author, 9 March 2016.
21. Col. Patrick H. Mason, commander, Redstone Test Center,
telephone call with author, 3 March 2016.
22. Program Executive Office (PEO) Enterprise Information
Systems (EIS), “General Fund Enterprise Business Systems,” PEO
EI S website, accessed 20 April 2016, http://www.eis.army.mil/
programs/gfebs.
23. Mason, telephone call.

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