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Washington Post September 4, 2012 Pg. 1 Instead of pushing changes, defense chief emphasizes consensus For most of the past year, Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta has stressed that the vast military complex over which he presides is at a "strategic turning point." A decade of grinding guerrilla war is drawing to a close. Defense …
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SmallWarsJournal.com September 1, 2012 DeM Banter: so I ask myself...what are WE going to do about it? Back to the foxhole...we can do this and we can do better...thoughts? Case studies abound of businesses that have seen their success turn into bloat, hubris, and ultimately decline. It should be no surprise then that the most …
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View Original DeM Banter: HUGE VDH fan, great points from Victor. The United States is backing off from the Middle East -- and the Middle East from the United States. America is in the midst of the greatest domestic gas and oil revolution since the early 20th century. If even guarded predictions about new North …
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view original They're often criticized as spoiled, impatient, and most of all, entitled. But as millennials enter the workforce, more companies are jumping through hoops to accommodate their demands for faster promotions, greater responsibilities and more flexible work schedules—much to the annoyance of older co-workers who feel they have spent years paying their dues to …
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View original / inc.com After more than seven years of training CEOs, Jim Schleckser explains what separates the most effective business leaders from their weaker peers. Jim Schleckser has been an entrepreneur for the last 20 years, and for the last seven he's been imparting his leadership acumen to other entrepreneurs as part of the …
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View Original / Fast Company The first thing Tom Kolditz wants you to know about leaders is that most of them didn’t emerge from diapers to direct teams naturally. "If you look at the research done, the qualities leaders were born with, [such as] intelligence and attractiveness, account for 30 percent of leadership," says the retired brigadier …
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By J. William DeMarco In 2007-08 I was fortunate enough to be selected a a National Security Affairs Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Â An outstanding year spent with some of the foremost personalities in National Security on both the Right and the Left sides of the aisle. Â While there we were required …
View Original / Inc.com Remember when you used to have a period at the beginning of every day to think about your schedule, catch up with friends, maybe knock out a few tasks? It was called home room, and it went away after high school. But many successful people schedule themselves a kind of grown-up …
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blogs.hbr.org / view original DeM Banter:  Many thoughts from this short article... Cultural empathy? Or is American arrogance?  Is there a place for both?  Is there an arrogance at all?  Agree on the education piece...but is this a pendulum  that swings between the arts and hard sciences? Is it economy based? Things to ponder today... There's a difference …
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DeM Banter:  Brilliant lady...used much of her work at Hoover and honored to work with her (at much distance) in the Pentagon.  Always thought provoking. Washington Post August 23, 2012 Pg. 15 As the United States peers into the abyss beyond the "fiscal cliff," we must come to terms with a sobering reality: Even if …
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