In the last 12 years, the success of this Handbook is testified by its sales and by its Chinese
translation in 2008 1. This is the main reason why I was asked by Springer Publishing …

The successful management of a complex, hazardous event in many domains demands a
high level of incident command skills. In the oil and gas exploration and production industry …

We propose an interdisciplinary, multilevel model of leadership and team dynamics for
dangerous military contexts. Viewing this context as a higher level of analysis, our model …

Moreover, the post-coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic environment has exposed human
beings worldwide to extraordinarily challenging and unprecedented circumstances in 2020 …

Leadership from the edge implies that subordinates are able and authorized to take the
initiatives that are necessary to deal with the situations they encounter. Although leadership …

Peace operations involving modern armed forces require a system of command in which
responsibilities and authorities are delegated throughout the command line: mission …

Military teams share many characteristics with teams in other application areas. They differ,
however, in critically important ways, such as the life-and-death nature of their work, the high …

One of the many definitions of teamwork in the literature is provided by Salas, Sims, and
Klein (2004, p. 497-498), who state that “teamwork is a set of flexible behaviors, cognitions …

The US Army faces a difficult and challenging context today. To help meet these challenges,
we propose the Army looks beyond traditional, individual-level approaches to leadership to …

At the close of the twentieth century and the start of the twenty-first, the function of the military
underwent a series of such rapid and significant changes that it is still difficult to describe …