by William Deresiewicz, theamericanscholar.org If you want others to follow, learn to be alone with your thoughts The lecture below was delivered to the plebe class at the United States Military Academy at West Point in October 2009. My title must seem like a contradiction. What can solitude have to do with leadership? Solitude means …
TOXIC WORKPLACES: LEADERSHIP A DeMarco Podcast w/USAF Chaplain Corps
Talk about absolute professionals--we had an amazing conversation between Ch Boarts and MSgt Dilley defining toxic leadership and what it means. This is a podcast developed by the USAF Chaplain Corps Resource Development Cell (RDC). "The RDC spoke with Mr. Bill DeMarco who is the Air Command and Staff College Chair of Leadership at Air …
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SEVEN! The Contrarian Traits Required of the Greater Good Leader
By J. William DeMarco John Maxwell notes… "leadership is influence." In order to influence, we all need relationships, as such leadership is hugely relational. I could be way off base on this but this has been my observation through a myriad of leadership positions. Do I have it right, no…I'm just trying to get better. …
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Innovation with The Byrds: Eight Miles High, IDEO and David Kelley—neo-DeMarcoian Banter
The Byrds were an iconic band when I was growing up, although they were well before my time, the music is in a sense timeless. The song Eight Miles High was always one where there seemed there was this confluence of a million things all happening at once and as I did some “research” I …