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view original / RON ASHKENAS / blogs.hbr.org To retain high-potential employees, the conventional wisdom is deceptively simple: Identify,develop, and nurture them. By paying special attention to the very best people, they will stay with the firm and eventually emerge as key leaders. But translating this into action is much more difficult. As the former head of executive development at GE used …
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By J. William DeMarco ...or... Why do you want to be a leader? Is it the honor, the glory, the respect, the perks? The really great parking? Leading is so multi-dimensional and if you are doing it right, it impacts all aspects of a leader’s life. As a leader, there are not many minutes in …
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By J. William DeMarco “Nothing stops an organization faster than people who believe that the way you worked yesterday is the best way to work tomorrow.” — Jon Madonna The more my "maturity" hits me in the face--the more I see the world for all of its C3: Crisis, Complexity, and Confusion. As leaders we …
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Original Article / James Jay Carafano The U.S. Armed Forces are in quite a battle these days. They’re caught between a president determined to make substantial cuts in defense investments and a Congress increasingly intolerant with wasteful spending. All this while following a Rube Goldberg set of legislative mandates and having a nation to defend. …
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view original / blogs.hbr.org/ by SCOTT ANTHONY Is there a corporate leader who doesn't extol the virtues of innovation these days? Yet if innovation is so important, why do so many companies have so much trouble with it? The reflexive response is that it is a human capital problem — that is, that most people just don't have …
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Washington Post April 24, 2012 Pg. 17 Fine Print The United States needs a consistent position on nonproliferation if its efforts to lower the nuclear weapons threat is to be taken seriously. The past two weeks prove the point. On Thursday, India successfully tested what it called its first intercontinental ballistic missile, the Agni V. …
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New York Times April 24, 2012 By Eric Schmitt WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is revamping its spy operations to focus on high-priority targets like Iran and China in a reorganization that reflects a shift away from the war zones of Iraq and Afghanistan that have dominated America’s security landscape for the past decade. Under the …
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DeMarco Banter: GREAT article and VERY applicable for military leaders going from a staff, flight command, or Director of Operations to Squadron Command and above (should be a hand out at Sq/CC course). It's always different as the leader...now...you are the one making the big calls and holding the pen, developing the vision and the …
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By J. William DeMarco A day of leave with some time to ponder and banter: One of the biggest differences between a leader and a manager is vision. A leader casts the vision for the organization--where there is no vision...there is usually a manager at the helm. True leaders recognize a difference between leaders and …
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