Hamilton: Provocative ideas about professional judgment 

Posted: 12:43 pm Fri, August 13, 2010
By Neil Hamilton

President Obama's June 2010 firing of Gen. Stanley McChrystal as top commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan yields a lesson for all professionals: Regardless of your career stage and overall job performance, if you do not actively work at growing your professional judgment by appropriately reacting to, reflecting on and learning from your mistakes, you are always susceptible to the consequences that follow.