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6 Leadership Styles, And When You Should Use Them by Robyn Benincasa

fastcompany.com / view original Taking a team from ordinary to extraordinary means understanding and embracing the difference between management and leadership. According to writer and consultant Peter Drucker, "Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things." Manager and leader are two completely different roles, although we often use the terms interchangeably. Managers are facilitators of their team …

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8 Leadership & Management Lessons On The Starship Enterprise by Elish Bul-godley

view original / tweakyourbiz.com If you are a Star Trek fan, you will know that it’s a franchise borne from Gene Roddenberry’s 1960s vision of an utopian society. It was based on his a coherent set of  idealistic principles the background to which; were the emerging political tensions within American Society during a phase of economic expansion, …

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Please, Can We All Just Stop “Innovating”? by BILL TAYLOR

view original /BILL TAYLOR/ blogs.hbr.org There's something about the culture of business that tends toward excess — in financial markets, to be sure, but also in the "market" for new ideas and management techniques. The dynamic is always the same, whether the idea in question is reengineering, six-sigma quality, or lean production systems: A genuinely original strategy …

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FAIL!

by J. William DeMarco EPIC FAIL! Is that always a bad thing? Sitting here on my XX birthday… I ponder all the successes and the EPIC FAILs in life. Success does not mean avoiding failure… it is all what you do with the EPIC FAIL. Do you learn, do you get stronger? All of us …

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Multi-Generational Leadership by Wagner NYU

view original / wagner.nyu.edu blogger's note: Something I have been pondering for years... and honestly generational issues truly fascinate me.  Culture tells the story of YOUR time, YOUR history, what impact a generation as we grow and mature.  In the military, politics, and I am sure in business...we are at a juncture...Baby Boomers staying loungers, but retiring, Gen …

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Step 1 To Great Leadership: Pick Up a Pen, and Write it Down by Terry Starbucker

view original / terrystarbucker.com Blogger's note:  Been following Terry Starbucker for a while... highly recommend (go ahead, click the link above...come on).  I came across this the other day and thought...how simple...and how true.  I have been jotting things down for about 7-10 years now and have all the notebooks on shelves--probably need to review those books …

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Generation X and the Narrowing Career Path by TAMMY ERICKSON

view original / TAMMY ERICKSON / blogs.hbr.org Bloggers Note:  Nice post from HBR below, but something I have been pondering for a long time...and not made any headway on a theory, but Gen X is just now entering the General Officer ranks in the military.  What will that do or not do for the DoD?  Will we see a …

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5 Things the Pentagon Isn’t Telling Us About the Chinese Military by TREFOR MOSS

View original / Foreign Policy Think of it like an iceberg: The top lies in plain sight, but a lot more hides beneath the surface. In its annual appraisal of the Chinese military published last week, the U.S. Department of Defense seems to be describing an object it finds both familiar and mysterious. The report …

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Why Is General McChrystal Teaching An Off-The-Record Course At Yale? By Gian Gentile

TheAtlantic.com May 24, 2012 It's fine for a military office to play the role of professor -- but not if that means allowing 'special arrangements' that corrupt intellectual freedom. In 1951, American conservative William F. Buckley published God and Man at Yale. In his book, Buckley slammed Yale's faculty for turning American liberal ideology into …

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