Bill McCollum

Dr. Bill McCollum joined the Command and General Staff College leadership faculty in November 2005.  His education and leadership experience include an EdD, Organizational Leadership, Air War College and US Army Command and General Staff College, Commander of 1st Battalion (AH-64 Apache), 4th Aviation Regiment, and Vice President for University Relations at Baker University’s main campus in Baldwin City, KS.  Dr. McCollum now serves as an Associate Professor of Leadership, leading a teaching team and section of 18 faculty and 80 students.

Sometimes in the course of military operations ill-conceived ideas survive to produce unacceptable outcomes.  When this happens, frustrated leaders might ask, “What made us think this...