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Change Management, Risk, Transformational Leadership

Mike Jackson served as Head of the British Army as campaigns were raging across Iraq and Afghanistan. He now applies his first hand strategic experience to the challenge facing any big organisation. Mike sets out how every leader needs to instil discipline, to be ruthless about non-essential overheads and learn to be structurally flexible: “You’ve got to mark out the objective, work out the minimum resources required to get there, and get on with it.”

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Biography

General Sir Mike Jackson served as Chief of the General Staff and Head of the Army until 2006. He commanded the British in Iraq, UN forces in Kosovo and peacekeeping missions in Bosnia.

Jackson was originally commissioned into the Intelligence Corps, specialising in the threat from the Soviet Union. He transferred to the Parachute Regiment and was on duty in Northern Ireland on what became known as Bloody Sunday.

In the 90s, Jackson served as deputy to NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe, General Wesley Clark. He famously refused Clark’s order to block the runway at Pristina airport, telling him "I won’t start World War III for you." Had he complied, British and Russian troops might well have come into armed conflict.

In the wake of the Iraq invasion it was Jackson who ordered an inquiry into images released by the Daily Mirror depicting alleged torture of Iraqi prisoners by British soldiers. The Mirror's editor Piers Morgan was later fired, after the pictures were shown to be a hoax.

Sir Mike remains extremely proud of his soldiers’ record, whilst critical of Donald Rumsfeld’s original post-conflict strategy. He has also questioned the Ministry of Defence's understanding of the ethos of the armed forces, and the debt they are owed by Government. In presentations Sir Mike argues that every leader must be flexible and ruthless about overheads. He or she must mark out the objective, work out the resources required to get there and then get on with it. Humans do not form into efficient teams without being led; the tighter the budget, the more the leader must communicate, maintain resolve and keep morale high.

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