DeM Banter: Another case of being "smarter than history?" Do we really see a fight with China? Or do we see more issues in the Mid-East? I certainly know which one is "easier" to plan for..."H.R." McMaster...another great Hoover Fellow... gazette.com / View Original / November 24th, 2013 Herbert Raymond "H.R." McMaster, now a two-star general of some renown, returned …
3 Types of Leaders Who Never Succeed BY LES MCKEOWN
DeM Banter: highly recommend Les McKeown's work...yup, I'll be pondering all three... View Original / inc.com / 24 Nov 13 Do you rise again and again to the very edge of success, only to fall back down? You may be guilty of one of these leadership styles. It's an oft-quoted leadership trope: Because of his …
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How To Be A Jedi Knight By James Altucher
DeM Banter: I can not say I am a huge fan of this article...but I like it in thought. The author might be a tad... well... out there, but he has a couple good ideas. I believe spiritually...James and I are quite different... but alas, he is published in Forbes... I am not. http://www.forbes.com / View Original / November …
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I Know Everything! DeMarco Banter
I know... I know everything! I am everything! -Connor MacLeod (of the Clan MacLeod) Sure, a quote like that is fine from The Highlander, but have you ever heard it or felt it from a boss? It would seem many leaders feel a great temptation to pretend they know everything...or at least everything the future holds. Perhaps, …
Defense Senior Civilian Vacancies On the Rise By Sandra I. Erwin
DeM Banter: So I've got a few resumes out..."what are we going to today Brain...????" View Original Defense industry leaders are growing uneasy over the number of unfilled senior civilian posts at the Pentagon. Many of the current vacancies have not been filled because the Obama administration has not yet named candidates. Others are positions …
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Waging War on a Shoestring By THOM SHANKER
DeM Banter: ...what could possibly go wrong? View Original / NY Times / 19 Nov 2013 SIMI VALLEY, Ca. – The four-star commander of all Air Force combat jets earned an audible gasp from the audience of national security specialists with his disclosure about American vulnerabilities brought on by the spending stalemate back in Washington. …
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10 Causes of Leadership Failure By Matt Laddin
DeM Banter: Tracking success is obviously important...but knowing where the potholes are is pretty darn necessary as well...Classic excerpts from Think and Grow Rich, by Napolean Hill below.something to ponder on a Wednesday. http://www.business2community.com / View Original / November 20th, 2013 “A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.“A leader is …
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The Next Bin Laden by Michael Hirsh
DeM Banter: I was fortunate to hear Mr Hirsh speak about a year ago in DC...and I have been pondering his talk ever since... his premise...AQ continues to morph and we are on about AQ4.0 right about now...yet we continue to ponder and fight AQ1.0 and the operating system has totally changed. Oh...all this as …
Special Report – The Pentagon’s doctored ledgers conceal epic waste BY SCOT J. PALTROW
DeM Banter: Leadership challenge? The implication is this is simply too hard...or that's what one would get from reading the article...really? Who is accountable? The Services? It was an OSD decision to place all of this under one roof--so is it OSD and the SecDef? Or is is some guy name Matt Foley "35 years …
We are not ‘tired of war’. We are tired of lack of leadership to win one: The Spectator UK
DeM Banter: Always interesting to get the British perspective... View Original / The spectator As we wear poppies, let's remember we're still a nation that seeks to shape the world — not be shaped by it One remarkable fact of recent years is that even as the veterans of the first world war have died …
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