{"id":262,"date":"2008-08-19T17:08:25","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T22:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/at-scm.com\/index.php\/2008\/08\/19\/personal-observations\/in-praise-of-mavericks\/"},"modified":"2008-08-19T17:08:27","modified_gmt":"2008-08-19T22:08:27","slug":"in-praise-of-mavericks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/at-scm.com\/index.php\/2008\/08\/19\/personal-observations\/in-praise-of-mavericks\/","title":{"rendered":"In praise of mavericks…"},"content":{"rendered":"

In praise of mavericks<\/a> is a short piece by Col. Michael Wyly (Ret.) that can be found at the Armed Forces Journal. The byline reads – <\/p>\n

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A true professional will strive to do something, not be someone<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
The colonel’s principal interest is in a single word – professional<\/u>, in brief terms – the development of the profession and the professional. <\/p>\n
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It was during the European Renaissance that the professional class emerged and defined itself. It was during the Renaissance that the birthright nobility began to give way to a society led by persons respected for their merits – for what they did instead of who they were. Each profession had standards for entry, they professed something, and their study of it was daily, continual and life- long.They served their society. Medicine, law, the clergy and military leadership became during the 15th and 16th centuries – and still stand as – the classically defined professions. <\/p>\n
A profession must be applied for and joined after being accepted,and its moral standards are as important as its philosophy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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So it follows that I ask myself this same question – What is my profession? What professional am I? And the surest answer is that I am not in any profession – of many professions but not in any one. And I don’t find that as troubling as I normally might. Or should I?<\/p>\n
Some of the Secretary of Defense’s remarks invoke another Air Force Colonel John Boyd, the OODA loop etc. It has been a long standing desire on my part to study the OODA loop and possible adaptations to what I do everyday. Or maybe the OODA loop itself is the desire.<\/p>\n
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After they graduate and leave Maxwell, Gates warned the students: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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