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Leadership is Turning Values & Vision into Steps Forward by Strategic Monk

DeMarco Banter:  been following Greg (The Strategic Monk) for a good while now, highly recommend at least checking out his awesome website (link below).  Great piece here...Definitely want to learn more from him...  ______________________________________________ strategicmonk.com / view original Leadership is about turning values and vision into tangible steps forward. Leaders first lead themselves. Your leadership flows out …

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The Paradox of High Potentials by Ron Ashkenas

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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Enlightened Rebel or “Free Radical?” Fighting C3 w/3Cs –DeMarco Banter

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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The war over defense by James Jay Carafano

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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The Four Worst Innovation Assassins by Scott Anthony

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 Double-Talk On Nukes By Walter Pincus

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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Defense Department Plans New Intelligence Gathering Service

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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Learning To Flex Your Leadership Muscles by Todd McKinnon

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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