by Alan Sockwell and Brad Westveld An interesting pattern begins to emerge when you look at which issues leaders seem to struggle with clearly identifying as areas of weakness or risk within their organization. Independent of culture, geography or industry, the same areas or threats arise again and again. Consider them Blind Spots – those …
Why Can’t The Air Force Build An Affordable Plane?
TheAtlantic.com March 26, 2012 Congress and the Pentagon want to commission stealthy new bombers at $550 million apiece. But it's not clear why we need so many expensive features. By David Axe When the Obama administration dispatched three B-2 bombers from a Missouri air base on March 19 last year to cross the ocean and …
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Boeing KC-46 Tanker May Be Delayed: GAO Report
By Andrea Shalal-Esa, Reuters One year into its development, the Air Force's new KC-46 refueling tanker being developed by Boeing Co faces "significant schedule risks" and technical challenges, and is already $900 million over budget, a congressional report found. The Government Accountability Office, an investigative arm of Congress, said the Air Force had limited its …
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5 Steps to Better Leadership Charisma Brian Evje
Charisma is not a substitute for genuine leadership. These five steps can help you develop, and blend, the two. Leadership charisma and personal charisma are very different things. They both involve the same kinds of personal attributes--the ability to project confidence, the capacity to engage others, skill in articulating ideas, vision, and goals—which may explain …
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Budget Gridlock Imperils National Defense By Rowan Scarborough
Washington Times March 26, 2012 Pg. 1 Arms systems cuts look likely Defense analysts and Capitol Hill insiders are anticipating that automatic federal budget cuts will occur Jan. 1 and force the armed forces to scrap plans for new weapons systems. Washington's polarized political landscape shows no signs of a compromise on taxes and spending …
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A Middle Course On Iran: Between preemption and containment of the nuclear threat
Washington Post March 25, 2012 Pg. 19 By Michael O'Hanlon and Bruce Riedel To contain Iran, or to preempt? That is, at present, the question. President Obama’s recent dismissal of containment as an option would seem to stack the deck. Unless Iran pauses its uranium enrichment activities, an Israeli or U.S. strike against its nuclear …
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A Path To Security By Gary Schmitt and Thomas Donnelly
Weekly Standard April 2, 2012 Rep. Paul Ryan calls his budget plan the “Path to Prosperity,” but it could be termed as well a “Path to Security.” In reclaiming more than $200 billion of the nearly $500 billion in military cuts made in last year’s Budget Control Act (BCA), the House Budget Committee chairman takes …
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Britain’s £10,000,000,000 Fiasco
London Sunday Times March 25, 2012 Pg. 16 Britain has no aircraft carrier and new ones won't be ready for years. Worse, ministers don't even know what type of fighter will fly from them. Tim Ripley investigates. Last Monday morning Britain's Navy — or what is left of it — seemed to have lost its …
Leaders Who Attract Leaders
Another piece I came across during some morning reading and reflection... there really are two types of leaders: 1) Leaders that are about the greater good--These leaders intrinsically attract other leaders 2) Leaders that are about personal power--These leaders, at best, will attract followers (some point there will be more on "greater good and personal …
Future Of American Power By David Ignatius
Washington Post March 25, 2012 Pg. 19 The inescapable foreign policy issue for U.S. presidential candidates this year is whether American power is declining and, if so, what to do about it. This strategic conundrum lies behind every challenge the United States faces, from Egypt to Afghanistan to China. For your election-year reading table, I …
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