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View Original 1. Set scary standards. Your level of excellence and expectation for your product, service, or experience should be something that is nearly unattainable... 2. Allow for failure. The road to success is many times paved through multiple failures.... 3. Make decisions. Leaders are decision makers, and must do it constantly. 4. Reward innovation. …
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DeM Banter: Like I always say... if we are not trying to get better... what in the heck are we doing? And... that we don't learn from history is the lesson of history... well, I didn't say that... “That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of …
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DeM Banter: This will be interesting to watch. Funny how when a civilian court does not convict it is okay, but if the military finds someone innocent... it is different. I have no clue as to the cases below, but if the Generals were willing to overturn...there was good reason. Obviously they were well aware …
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DeM Banter: O'Hanlon is a big thinker...for sure. Not all the proposals below are perfect...but is there any perfection in these cuts...the point is: something must be done, the current trajectory is not sustainable. As a mobility type... I am trying to wrap my mind around swapping crews on carries while deployed. I am sure …
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View Original / William Isaac / Forbes DeM Banter: I ponder this question often...and then quickly go to Bill Isaac's comment in his conclusion...a "more important question is how will we produce the new leaders we so desperately need?" Any thoughts? Where have all the leaders gone? That’s the question I hear everywhere I travel …
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DeM Banter: Victor is firing on all 12 cylinders here. How often we ignore the lessons of history. Before the United States enters Syria, it should consider the lessons of history. There are many reasons why nations lose wars. Sometimes small states are simply overwhelmed by large empires, such as Poland’s fall to Nazi …
DeM Banter: an article passed to me by a friend...I think we both liked the article initially, but the more I read it, the more I have to ask... and?.... What are we going to do about it? I guess.... I am still Wondering Where The Lions Are? ricks.foreignpolicy.com / Thomas E. Ricks / view original As a …
DeM Banter: so many issues with this and when combined with several other issues hitting the press as of late...now blend in the sequester...wow...we get to some hard hitting strategic problems quickly. Yahoo.com May 8, 2013 AP Exclusive Associated Press WASHINGTON-- The Air Force stripped an unprecedented 17 officers of their authority to control -- …
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inc.com / view original DeM Banter: great article, please read...I could not agree more, honestly...I did not contribute to the article in any way. DeM comments in italics... Never assume that the conventional wisdom is right. Old ways of operation can be sticky. After all, they have their own built-in constituencies. HUGE: institutional inertia is …
DeM Banter: I know...as a nation, we simply don't like history lessons...but, simply put...we are not smarter than history. Not sure I agree with Walt on his statement...."The 1991 Gulf War and, more recently, Libya and Mali, should be models for Syria." We could argue (as we have) that Desert Storm cost a great deal …
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