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view original / thediplomat.com DeM Banter: A more realistic view of "the Pivot?" Since the disappearance of the Soviet Union, China has become America’s default adversary, the power against which the United States measures itself militarily, at least when there is no more proximate enemy in sight. With America’s war in Iraq over and the one in Afghanistan winding …
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DeM Banter: Are we pondering the 2nd and 3rd order effects? There is good here...to be sure, but are we looking at the strategic implications of proliferation and the empowerment of robotic warfare? Perhaps we are... Danger Room (Wired.com) August 13, 2012 More secret bases. More and better unmanned warplanes. More frequent and deadly robotic …
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view original / forbes.com DeM Banter: Great stuff... knew there was a reason I loved jazz... Frank J. Barrett, a professor of management and global public policy at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif., is also a jazz pianist who has led his own trios and quartets and traveled with the Tommy Dorsey orchestra. In his …
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DeM Banter: Classic...crisis, complexity, and confusion (C3), but does the USAF culture support the communication, creative thinking and collaboration to fix it? ...trust.....something that takes a great deal of time and effort to rebuild Air Force Times August 20, 2012 Pg. 20 Welsh must repair relations with Congress and reserve components, experts say The new chief of …
view original / forbes.com DeM Banter: All about the Maverick leader.... seems like a long forgotten breed outside of Hollywood movies...we could sure use more, especially in today's environment... Many of today’s most inspiring businesses were created by maverick leaders who colored outside of lines and thought outside of the box. Sir Richard Branson comes to mind. Mark Cuban. Elon Musk. …
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DeM Banter: Cant help but harken back to Thinking in Time by May and Neustadt... history is extremely useful when...decision-makers separate what is known about the situation from what is unclear and from what is merely presumed; to study the history of the issue, thereby putting it in perspective; to beware of easy historical analogies when current …
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SmallWarsJournal.com August 10, 2012 This Week At War In my Foreign Policy column, I explain why the U.S. should intervene in Syria. Hint: the reason is not about Syria. In a recent op-ed in the Washington Post, Senators John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and Joseph Lieberman argued for stepped-up U.S. intervention in Syria's civil war. They called for providing …
View Original / A year has passed since Congress passed and President Obama signed into law the Budget Control Act-the legislation mandating sequestration. Funding cuts that once seemed politically remote now loom large for leaders increasingly anxious about the impact $1.2 trillion in automatic budget reductions will have upon their respective districts and states. An estimated two …
View Original For 30 years, Jim Kouzes has asked leaders about their peak performances for "Leadership Challenge"--the book he and Barry Posner coauthored that has been called the best ever written on the subject. Fast Company talks to Kouzes about the essentials of leadership. When Jim Kouzes met Barry Posner in 1981, they were both …
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View Original / Fast Company Trust me. When's the last time you actually believed those words on the job? If your answer is a long time ago, you're not alone. In fact, many people instinctively recoil from those two words--especially when uttered by business leaders or professional colleagues. A sign of the times, perhaps, but there's …
