The Command and General Staff College Foundation’s Simons Center for Interagency Cooperation has a new director effective today. Retired Ambassador Edward Marks assumes the duties as director of The Simons Center this month.
Any look at the State Department’s professional education and training programs may benefit from a corresponding review of how other agencies handle this important career development requirement. Such comparisons may help bring into sharper focus the unstated assumptions and invisible organizational values... (Editor's Note: The Army's Approach to Leader Development was published in the Foreign Service Journal in the July-August 2012, Vol. 89, No. 7-8, edition.)