General George on the From The Green Notebook Podcast

The CSA talks modernization and innovation, bottom-up idea generation, and the Harding Project.

On October 26, the 41st Chief of Staff invited Joe Byerly of From the Green Notebook to the Pentagon for a discussion on innovation, leadership, the Harding Project and the continuous transformation needed to keep the Army at the forefront of modern warfare.

General George shared his insights on everything from mobile C2 nodes to the progress of The Harding Project to the importance of bottom-up idea generation. In his discussion of the Harding Project, General George highlighted the officer broadening opportunity at University of Kansas, as well as the end state of professional writing—improving the organization.

The Chief also alluded to the Army’s newest website, Line of Departure, when he said:

I’ve been very pleased that we were finally able to get to having our journals online and where people can actually see them and read them and they’re in an easy format…I think it was time that we actually put people back into each of our branches.

To listen to the full episode, go to FTGN - Ep 127 GEN George. It is also available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.