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DeM Banter: I continue to find it interesting that the "horse and bayonet" comment resonates, but lets take the politics out of this. The numbers below are very shocking and in usual DeMarco Banter...even more shocking we don't have a strategy to match the downsizing. Well, there is the phantom pivot....We all hear the fact …
Continue reading "America’s Capsizing Naval Policy By Mark Helprin"
DeM Banter: a tough one to be sure, especially after the US admitted to Stuxnet. This is akin to drones...can we get upset when we are doing the same? Nakashima asks when the attack becomes an act of war? We set another precedent when our embassy was attacked 11Sep 2012, US sovereign territory and the …
DeM Banter: big fears here...we continue to cut defense, but we continue to ask defense to keep doing what they are doing...we keep stretching our military thiner and thiner...like a rubber band, eventually something will give. When it does I fear the public will look to DoD and ask what went wrong...we had such faith …
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DeM Banter: the genie is out of the bottle...or maybe I should say genies...because, they are all going to be different depending on the nation and the interest. All 4 points below have been discussed on this blog ad nauseam...but 10 years from now, 2022... things are going to look very different in terms of …
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entrepreneur.com / view original DeM Banter: Spending a lot of time pondering leadership strengths and how to get young leaders to identitfy and nurture their strengths. DISC seems like a strong C+ test... leaning heavily toward Gallup's StrengthFinder... any thoughts? There are many leadership styles and a cottage industry has cropped up around defining them. Gayle Lantz, …
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DeM Banter: and the answer is? ForeignPolicy.com October 26, 2012 Washington calls them "regional" missile defenses, but Russian and China see a strategic threat brewing. To counter missile programs in Iran and North Korea, the United States is expanding missile defense capabilities in Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. So far, the United States has …
DeM Banter: I'm sure each one of these ideas is a paper or a book all on to itself...the concepts are all great, but they all cost money. There is an initial startup fee that must be paid for each...so spending would actually spike before it would actually come down (probably). The other disturbing issue...this …
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inc.com / view original DeM Banter: Know any "leaders" like this? How does it make you feel when one of these seven issues raises its ugly head... sitting around waiting for the boss at her staff meeting, emails/phone calls go unanswered, the boss is always right, do you feel like you add value?... stop and think about …
Continue reading "7 Ways to Earn Respect as a Leader by Kevin Daum"
There are several things great leaders do....that make them great. You can tell a great deal about a leader and what drives him/her just by observing their priorities. pri·or·i·ty (pr-ôr-t, -r-) n. pl. pri·or·i·ties 1. Precedence, especially established by order of importance. Ponder any great leader and think about their priority system Was it: Easy …
DeM Banter: Once again... pondering what this looks like in 5 years.... Washington Post October 25, 2012 Pg. 19 There are moments when you can glimpse an emerging bipartisan consensus on foreign policy, and Monday night’s presidential debate was one of them: Barack Obama and Mitt Romney knew they were speaking to a war-weary country …
