Recent content by ericsauve2

My blog post about the difficult transition to civilian life. Almost 10 years to this day that I left the uniform and there are still many aspects I miss sorely. Mod Edit: Deleted blog advertising link.

Just curious, under your avatar I read "staff member, directing staff, and subscriber". What do those mean? I saw "donor" and "mentor" too.

Intelligence, mostly, and security, generally. Got a contract for me? ;-)

From what I read and what I know, "pointing out" a toxic leader is the worst strategy, as they only get more toxic. It's unfortunate but real toxic leaders cannot be reformed, they ought to be fired.

Very interesting post. I would hope that we're able to screen real sociopaths/psychopaths before they get to the recruit school, or before they get to their unit. "Functional sociopaths", I love the term. When I mentioned "psychopaths", what I actually read from psychology was that toxic...

It's a small world we live in...

Thanks, I appreciate your frankness. I was a little surprised at first by everyone's visceral reaction to the post, I was hoping that people wouldn't judge the book by its cover. I don't have a problem personally with "hard" bosses, in the sense of demanding leaders. As long as they're fair...

True. And I do have strong evidence but I guess it didn't reflect in my paper, for the simple fact that I didn't want to provide names or specific examples.

On phase 3 a WO threatened to kill (pierce) us, as described above. And that was just the tip of the iceberg. On phase 4 a WO used to keep us in a room, many Friday evenings, for 2 reasons: (1) to prevent us from "escaping" towards Quebec City at a decent time, and (2) to tell us, in lengthy and...

I happen to be both a fellow soldier and a consultant ;-) I'll do my best to not base my judgement on professional bias (déformation professionnelle in French!)

Trust me when I say that the first quote comes from a person in the CAF. It actually come from a BGen talking about a superior. The example in Afg, yes, it's dated. But remember I left in 2014 and I made it clear in the article that I think things are getting better. And, again, I'll ask you to...

There is formal teaching/instructing and then there is what one learns by observing, which is as important. I was told several time to take care of my troops, Mission First - Men Second, that type of stuff. That's not always what I witnessed though. I have seen toxic leaders say all the right...

Ok ok. Send me the "unwritten" rules about behaving on Army.ca because clearly I'm not familiar with the culture here. I can - and do - debate seriously. I also like to joke but I'll keep that for myself. ACK.

I don't disagree with this! On my phase 2, the instructors did an amazing job at turning each candidate against each other. To the point where one was the victim of a "code red", or what we call "passer à la couverte". Only 2 of us didn't take part in this ritual. When I learned about it the...

I just saw this on LinkedIn and I thought it applied well to our discussion!