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DeM Banter: We need to know what the boss is thinking, no matter where you are at in your career...agree or disagree, these are issues we all face...this is an important piece. National Journal July 28, 2012 Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, on how to cut nearly $500 billion and still keep …
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DeM Banter: tragic situation but without a clear, crisp, concise, strategy this could rapidly escalate to what Friedman mentioned in his article. Also interesting that The London Telegraph reported the US would not engage until after the election. Curious where the funding will come from as well...clearly there are no easy answers here...there is risk …
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fastcompany.com / view original DeM Banter: Hopefully you are not the idea killer....but are you an innovator & what kind...it's got me thinking... Innovation is essential to keeping an organization alive--everyone knows that. Then why do so few companies innovate? Part of the answer is that it's very hard for people who are invested in the current …
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Morning Advantage: View Original / HBR Blog Network DeM Banter: Sounds strangely familiar... 5:00 AM July 25, 2012 Most executives teams are surprisingly weak when it comes to strategy thinking, note Michael Birshan and Jayanti Kar in McKinsey Quarterly. Some leaders reach the C-suite because of functional expertise. Others are stronger on execution than on strategic thinking. …
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DeM Banter: "In the Middle East, the alternative to bad is not always good. It can be worse." - Thomas Friedman. A million assumptions here...not sure I am buying it and I sure wish I knew who wrote it. Libya is in free fall....and are we defining success off what? American lives lost? Money sunk? …
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DeM Banter: always enjoy Friedman...I tend to agree with the assessment, but always interested in a contrarian view. It is a tragedy to be sure and very difficult to watch... NATO and US (of course the US is part of NATO) forces are exhausted, blood and treasure are both low...choices of the past may indeed …
DeM Banter: N/A at this time... TheAtlantic.com July 23, 2012 Big-city campuses once produced superstars like Colin Powell. Today, those programs are dwindling -- which may lead to a whiter, more rural military. When cadet Kevin Poon arrives at St. John's University in the dark of early morning for physical training, he stands among about …
DeM Banter: Sure, I hear ya... of course... but think 10 years from now...given the budget, the lack of forethought and strategy...there is a good bit said in this very short article, that is perhaps not said... not the least of which is..."However, pilots for manned aircraft won’t necessarily make up the majority of the …
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view original / blogs.hbr.org You can't make every worker happy, surely, and should a business even try? Evidence from our recent research suggests, actually, that the answer is yes. Or rather, our evidence shows that managers are giving up far too soon on their disgruntled employees, making them less productive than they could be, exposing their companies …
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DeM Banter: Amen! As I worked on my SDE thesis...my advisor Dr David Mets told me... America won't change until it has a Death Sentence. I really wanted to argue with him, but his 85 years of life experiences trumps mine and in historical hindsight he is right. WWII is a great example, but the …
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