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Washingtonpost.com May 18, 2012 Checkpoint Washington: Reporting on diplomacy, intelligence and military affairs Drum roll, please. The House, for a second year in a row, has approved a measure limiting Pentagon spending on military bands next year to only $200 million. An amendment by Rep. Betty McCollum (D-Minn.), a member of the House Appropriations Committee, …
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Washington Times May 21, 2012 Pg. 1 The Washington Times For Pentagon planners, automatic spending cuts slated to begin in January have become the $600 billion contingency they can’t plan for. Military planners are under strict orders not to devise scenarios for meeting the demands of “sequestration,” as the automatic, across-the-board spending reductions are called. …
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By J. William DeMarco Read a great article from Inc.com this AM on humility: Inspire People to Follow: Practice Humility by John Baldoni ...maybe I should be listening. For me personally it is hard not to be humble when I see all the great people in the USAF, but many times our actions might not reflect our feelings. I am …
view original / leadershiptraq.com Blogger's note: So many great points in this post...huge for organizations to understand, give space, and time to think... Create a space inside your organization to create, to build, to innovate. Also realize not everyone is a creative...and that's okay. There's a tension between efficiencies and effectiveness that has to be addressed...but innovation …
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Blogger's Note: Crisis, Complexity, and Confusion (C3) Washington Post May 20, 2012 Pg. 23 Perhaps when Chinese leaders began to speak over the past several years about a new “Beijing Consensus” and the triumph of the “China Model,” that was a warning that the bubble was about to burst. And we’re seeing that hubris play …
Blogger's note: interesting there is no talk of tankers here. USAF carried the alliance in tanking during Libya operations, but better planning, sharing of resources, communication, collaboration, and a bit of creative thinking: 3Cs...we (NATO/remember the US is PART of the alliance) can solve that. Sounds like a job for the European Air Refueling Center …
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by J. William DeMarco Shouldn't that be the first question we ponder as leaders? Seems like most people evaluate events or decisions based on how they will be affected personally. Leaders need to ask not only how will this impact our people but they also need to look at how decisions will impact those above and next …
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view original / inc.com In the age of Pinterest and Instagram, 11 years in business seems like a long time. Here's what longevity has taught me. Forget five things; I could probably write an entire book about all the successes and failures I've encountered since I opened the doors of my e-mail marketing company, VerticalResponse, …
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International Herald Tribune May 18, 2012 Pg. 8 The goal in Chicago is to fundamentally change the way allies think about developing our future capabilities. In his valedictory speech last year, then-U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates argued that the partnership between the North American and European sides of the NATO alliance needed a new impulse. …
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