Military Management | The Runway

As a topic of Program Wirraway, Military Management focuses on promoting professionalism through up-skilling in the broad areas of management, organisational and cultural competence, attitudes, values and ethics, resilience, and strategies to be employed as you navigate the complex Defence systems as you navigate military and civilian organisational systems throughout your career. Military management involves efficiently coordinating resources and personnel within the armed forces to achieve mission objectives. It requires effective planning, organization, and direction of military activities while promoting accountability and teamwork. Strong decision-making skills, adaptability, and fostering professional growth are essential. Military management is vital for maintaining readiness and ensuring successful mission accomplishment.

Military Management

Sleepless at the Top: Takaichi’s Work Ethic Highlights Japan’s Overwork Problem

Japan’s new leader wants people to balance work, leisure, and rest. Ironically, engaging in overtime is generally considered an important source of income and career enhancing. Overwork and karoshi (death from overwork) are sensitive issues across cultures.

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For a self-reliant defence industry, make life easier for Australian enterprise

The article argues that Australia must build a self-reliant defence industry by 2035, mandating minimum SME participation and cutting red tape to reduce dependency on foreign suppliers and strengthen national security and economic resilience.

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Preparing for when disaster and conflict converge

Growing climate shocks across the region highlight how resilience must link local readiness with national planning—ensuring communities can withstand disruption while keeping wider risks from escalating. Civil emergencies reveal gaps in national resilience.

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Air Force eyes morale boost in revising dress, appearance guidance

Defence forces are constantly reviewing uniform regulations as they underpin utility, morale and discipline. The USAF is introducing small changes to wearing colours and adding call signs to positively affect broader unit morale and cohesion.

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Hegseth to slash red tape, empower program heads in acquisition revamp

Military acquisitions systems are characterised by burdensome regulations. US is developing a system for reducing acquisitions from an average of eight years to one through boosting competition and empowering officials to take risks and make trade-offs.

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The secrets of truly powerful people

Seeking power and influence at work is commonly thought of as bad management. This article argues that as long as it is sought for positive influencing and challenging, rather than simple self-aggrandisement, it can be effective.

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Are you working in your ‘best-fit’ role?

People can be misaligned within jobs and this can be observed through disengagement, demotivation and lack of productivity. Managers cannot always find alternate roles, but can help personnel through working to their strengths and interests.

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Conquering deadlines — turn anxiety into achievement

Deadlines can upset the workplace equilibrium leading to stress and in some cases inefficiencies. A model to consider is Getting Things Done, which relies on building resilience through more effective organisational and cognitive reframing strategies.

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Why do we think hard work is virtuous? Max Weber’s Protestant Ethic gives a sharp answer

People like to express that virtue is through hard work. It is interesting to trace the philosophical roots of work ethic, but importantly to appreciate that a motive of work can be simply proving you’re not disposable.

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AI makes measuring work performance a lot trickier. How do companies adapt?

AI is now challenging the submission of original work and how to be recognised and rewarded. A broader debate is about how credit at work is attributed and implications as to how personnel are assessed and reported.