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DeM Banter: The Art of Manliness, a stellar blog that has grown into books, a storefront and beyond. I started reading the blog years ago....and introduced Luke to it. As the years go on, Luke asked me if I had continued to read....and I had to admit it slipped from my "crosscheck." Well, it's back... …
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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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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: 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 …
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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 …
View Original / Andrew Lambert / History Today DeM Banter: Where are the Lord Nelsons today? Another thing to ponder...has America already seen her Trafalgar? The British Empire dominated the seas for so many decades...perhaps greater than a century...and then there was Jutland. Was that the beginning of the end for the British at sea? …
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View Original DeM Banter: Another great reading list from a historical perspective What is a Hero?: The American Heroes Press Short Story Anthology Hi Tech Criminal Justice More Info The Military Writers 2009 Book of the Year. Once a Marine: An Iraq War Tank Commander's Inspirational Memoir of Combat, Courage, and Recovery Nick Popaditch More …
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View Original / Mike Myatt DeM Banter: Courage... how often do you see it in leaders? Courage is a trait possessed by all great leaders. So much so, that leadership absent courage is nothing short of a farce. Let me be very clear – I’m not advocating for bravado, arrogance, or an overabundance of hubris, but …
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smallwarsjournal.com / view original DeM Banter: Great thought piece... with some stellar links to other powerful articles. This is really the sort of stuff we need to be sifting through now...thoughts? For an organization facing a period of significant transition, during a time of continued resource advantage and undefined threat, coming on the heels of the traumatic …
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