b'InsightsWhat are the characteristics of an effective leader? What leadership principles guide your efforts and how you lead? Leaders must be authentic. You must present your real self to your teams, colleagues, and across your organizations. Authenticity is a crucial characteristic, especially when you are engaged in difficult work. People you lead must believe in youbut also in your vision and mission. Leaders must cultivate credibility. This is garnered not simply from technical expertise, but more from a willingness to do the hard work and to put in the effort yourself. I think good, effective leaders can be both authentic and credible if they take the time to do that. Leaders must also avoid micromanaging. You want to empower your team, so they can achieve the vision you have set forth.To learn more about the U.S. Army Futures Command,How are you working to make the U.S. Army ango to armyfuturescommand.com/.employer of choice? To hear the interviews from The Business of Government Hour, go to It is important for us to communicate how much thebusinessofgovernment.org/interviews.Army has to offer. When people think of the Army, theymay envision the requisite infantry soldier. We are that andTo download the show as a podcast, go to PodcastOne or iTunes and search for The Business of Government Hour.much more. At AFC, we hire scientists, engineers, information specialists, and data scientists, to name ahandful of professions.We want to be an employer of choice. We have existing partnerships with universities across the country. These partnerships provide us with student interns who work in our labs during the summer alongside our scientists and researchers, focusing on real problems. The experience exposes these interns to all the Army has to offer, in terms of employment opportunities. It also builds a pipeline of relationships that make it easier to recruit and attract the right person, with the right skill, for the right joband in a timelier manner.https://youtu.be/SgAYaypOTD8Using direct-hire authorityor our science and technology lab authoritieswe can offer a job to that engineering graduate who may have also interned at our lab. Having these authorities enables us to compete for talent and shrinks the time for getting the right candidate on board.2022 IBM Center for The Business of Government 51'