(blogger note: follow Lolly on twitter, great inputs and connections to everything leadership on the web, just sayin') by lollydaskal in Blog, Lead From Within, Leadership Development, Passion, Personal Development, Purpose Each of us is born to lead, but not all of us are born feeling like leaders. Most of us don’t realize we have a chance to lead. Sadly, what …
Uncork your Brain with Mind Maps
by Rick Chin That great idea you are looking for is already somewhere in your mind or in the collective mind of your team. The real effort in coming up with a great idea, is all about getting out of your own way so that your great idea can reveal itself. I want to refer to …
Two Lists You Should Look at Every Morning by Peter Bergman
I was late for my meeting with the CEO of a technology company and I was emailing him from my iPhone as I walked onto the elevator in his company's office building. I stayed focused on the screen as I rode to the sixth floor. I was still typing with my thumbs when the elevator …
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The One Skill All Leaders Should Work On
by Scott Edinger, blogs.hbr.org March 29th 2012 If I had to pick one skill for the majority of leaders I work with to improve, it would be assertiveness. Not because being assertive is such a wonderful trait in and of itself. Rather, because of its power to magnify so many other leadership strengths. Assertiveness gets …
US Military Bets on ‘Big Data’ to Win Wars
All the robotic drones and battlefield sensors in the world can't win wars if the data deluge leads to information overload for military analysts' brains. That's why the U.S. military has announced it will spend $250 million each year on harnessing the power of "Big Data." That means creating computer systems that combine "computer speed, …
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McCain: Delaying Deal On Defense Cuts To Lame-Duck Session Would Be ‘A Disaster’
DEFCON Hill (TheHill.com) March 29, 2012 By Jeremy Herb Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said Thursday that Republicans are “stretching out our hand” to Democrats to find a solution for stopping the $500 billion cuts to the defense budget set to take effect in January 2013. McCain and a group of Republican senators said that a …
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Budget Chairman Challenges Generals On Defense
Yahoo.com March 29, 2012 By Donna Cassata, Associated Press WASHINGTON -- The chairman of the House Budget Committee said Thursday he doesn't believe the nation's commanders gave Congress a budget based on military strategy, prompting a push back from the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In one statement, Rep. Paul Ryan challenged both …
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16 Employee Idea Killers Your Management Team Could Be Committing
By Mike Brown Suppose you are part of your organization’s management team. The organization is trying to encourage an employee idea program so employees will come up with possibilities to improve your prospects, processes, and products. You really want to get employees involved generating and sharing ideas, but nothing is happening. That may be because …
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ONE: Notes from 25 March 2012 message….
below are the notes from a message at RAF Mildenhall's Chapel, 25 March...attempted to make them as readable as possible...apologies for the bumps and missteps below. INTRO: if I were to say to you Man in BLACK how many would know who I was talking about? Recently Sundie and I were discussing Johnny and June …
Creativity Lessons from Charles Dickens and Steve Jobs by Anne Kreamer
Creativity is the most essential skill for navigating an increasingly complex world — or so said 1,500 CEOs across 60 countries in a recent survey by IBM. And yet federally funded research and development — creativity, institutionalized — is down 20% as a share of America's GDP since the late 1980s. Private R&D spending has also tailed off since …
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