Success is failing, then rebounding, says I Corps general Senior officer’s many tasks include Pacifi

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Success is failing, then rebounding, says I Corps general Senior officer’s many tasks include Pacific Rim, suicides
By ADAM ASHTON
Staff writer Staff writer
February 4, 2014

Give Lt. Gen. Robert Brown a room full of young Army officers eager to learn from a three-star general, and the Joint Base Lewis-McChord commander might just bring up all the times he thinks he’s failed in uniform.

He says he wants a younger generation of leaders to understand that success has far more to do with rebounding from setbacks than it does with keeping a spotless service record.

“I give them straight-out examples. I’m sure they all walk out of there saying ‘Holy smokes, he’s a three-star general; I bet I can be a four-star, no problem,’” said Brown, the departing commander of Lewis-McChord’s I Corps.

Brown, 54, is taking his lessons in leadership to a new assignment this week, commanding the Combined Arms Center at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. He will manage programs grooming mid-level officers and soldiers moving into command positions.