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By Michael Nichols There are many good people mired in mediocrity and comfort. They spend much of life defending why they do what they do, selling what they’ve always sold, and protecting their organizations from being devoured by the forces of the new. Let’s face it – maintaining the status quo has to be exhausting. …
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Leaders evaluate everything with a leadership bias according to The Law of Intuition; the 8th Law of John C. Maxwell’s 21 irrefutable Laws of Leadership. According to Maxwell the Law of Intuition separates great leaders from good ones. Great leaders use intuition to couple instinct with intangible factors like morale, momentum and relationship dynamics to read “what’s happening” …
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By Jeff Schogol The Air Force does not have enough stealth aircraft to wage an effective air campaign against China or North Korea, according to a recent study by the American Enterprise Institute, a think tank in Washington. The F-22 fighter and B-2 bomber are the only Air Force aircraft that could penetrate China’s sophisticated air …
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Wall Street Journal (wsj.com) March 28, 2012 Washington Wire By Adam Entous BRASILIA -- The top U.S. military officer raised eyebrows earlier this year with a dire warning to Congress about the consequences of imposing automatic across the board budget cuts on the Pentagon: “We would no longer be a global power.” On Wednesday, Gen. …
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By Victor Davis Hanson, Tribune Media Services, Victor Davis Hanson Posted 03/28/2012 at 09:30 am EST The world was reinvented in the 1970s by soaring oil prices and massive transfers of national wealth. It could be again if the price of petroleum crashes -- a real possibility given the amazing estimates about the new gas …
Edited by Shaun Usher Some time in the 1480s (experts tend to agree with 1483/84, at which point he was approximately 32-years-old) Leonardo da Vinci applied for a job at the court of Ludovico Sforza — then de facto ruler of Milan but not officially its Duke for another few years. Da Vinci did so …
by ALICE KORNGOLD You might learn a great deal in school, but it’s doubtful that you’ll actually develop as a leader by reading a book or taking a course. The military is right about experiential development: People grow and become leaders by making a commitment to a cause, and having personal responsibility and accountability. For those of …
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Maxwellian thought combined with DeMarco banter: Bud Wilkinson states, "If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team." Some sports teams seem to embrace an everyone-for-themselves mind set. Not to call out my beloved 49ers here--but prior to this last …
By BRYAN CHAFFIN Writing for the April edition of the Harvard Business Review, biographer Walter Isaacson has penned a piece looking at the “real leadership lessons” of Steve Jobs. Mr. Isaacson, the author of Steve Jobs, used the 6,824 word essay to try and boil down that biography to the most essential and salient aspects …
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